Paula Byrne

Bestselling writer Paula Byrne tells the true story of Dido Belle inspiration for the major new Hollywood movie Belle released this summer and starring Tom Wilkinson Emily Watson Miranda Richardson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

Dido Elizabeth Belle was the first mixed-race English aristocrat brought up in 18th-century society as the adopted daughter of Lord Mansfield the Lord Chief Justice of England at his home Kenwood House Hampstead.