Personal Life
Starkey lives with his partner, James Brown, a publisher and book designer. The couple have two homes: a house in Highbury and a manor house in Kent. Starkey was appointed CBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list, for services to history. He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a visiting professor of the University of Kent.
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