Death and the Virgin named as one of 'the best books under the sun' by the Daily Telegraph. Historian Andrew Roberts picked out Death and the Virgin, stating "Chris Skidmore’s Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart (Weidenfeld, £20) solves one of the greatest Tudor mysteries – did the Earl of Leicester’s wife die from suicide, accident or murder? – and is set to become a classic."

Chris writes for the Daily Express about the mysterious death of Amy Robsart and the revelations contained in Death and the Virgin: