Caroline Derby is a historian, curator, and storyteller. Born a Neville, she married a Stanley and grew up on the Audley End estate before studying history and history of art at London University and then working for nearly a decade in all the royal palaces as exhibitions assistant to the surveyor of The Queen's paintings of the Royal Collection. She married the 19th earl of Derby in 1995 and they have three children. She is convinced that education and knowledge of history have the power to change lives.