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'''Rosemary Victoria Schofield''' is a British author, biographer, and historian.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.commonwealthroundtable.co.uk/organisation/member/victoria-schofield/|title=Victoria Schofield {{!}} The Round Table|work=The Round Table|access-date=2018-04-19|language=en-GB}}</ref> Her most recent books are a memoir of her thirty year friendship with [[Benazir Bhutto]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Isambard |title=The ruthless politics of Pakistan — and the curse of being a Bhutto |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-ruthless-politics-of-pakistan-and-the-curse-of-being-a-bhutto |website=Spectator online |access-date=13 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Schofield |first1=Victoria |title=‘From Oxford pals to political prisoner – my 30-year friendship with Benazir Bhutto’ |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/oxford-pals-political-prisoner-30-year-friendship-benazir/ |website=Telegraph online |access-date=13 November 2020}}</ref> a two volume history of the [[Black Watch]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Victoria Schofield's The Black Watch launches in London|url=http://headofzeus.com/article/victoria-schofields-black-watch-launches-london|access-date=9 August 2017}}</ref><ref>Linklater, Andro. [http://images.spectator.co.uk/books/7876293/the-courage-of-countless-generations.thtml "The Courage of Countless Generations"]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''The Spectator,'' 2 June 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012.</ref> and a biography of Sir [[John Wheeler-Bennett]].<ref>Simms, Brendan. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444405804577561082057775496 "The Man Who Knew Everyone"]. ''Wall Street Journal,'' 4 September 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012.</ref> She also wrote the first full-length biography of [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Archibald Wavell]]<ref>[http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/CXXI/494/1563.full.pdf "Wavell: Soldier and Statesman"]. ''The English Historical Review'' (2006) CXXI(494): 1563-1564. Retrieved 10 November 2012.</ref><ref>Ziegler, Philip. [http://images.spectator.co.uk/books/21876/a-talent-for-losing.thtml "A Talent for Losing"]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''The Spectator,'' 8 April 2006. Retrieved 10 November 2012.</ref> and edited a memoir of his life and naval career by her late father [[Vice-admiral (Royal Navy)|Vice Admiral]] B.B.Schofield.<ref>{{cite web |title=Review: With The Royal Navy in War and Peace - O'er The Dark Blue Sea |url=https://www.navybooks.com/review/product/view/id/1434/ |access-date=14 November 2020}}</ref> She regularly contributes to British national and specialist media.<ref>[http://www.victoriaschofield.com/Articles.htm Selected Articles and Features]. Official website. Retrieved 10 November 2012.</ref><br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
Victoria Schofield was educated at the [[Royal School Haslemere|Royal Naval School for Girls]], and at [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford|Lady Margaret Hall]] (LMH) of [[Oxford University]], from which she holds a degree in Modern History. At LMH she was a close friend of Benazir Bhutto, whom she succeeded as [[List of Presidents of the Oxford Union|President of the Oxford Union Society]].<ref name="personal">[http://www.victoriaschofield.com/Personal.php Personal information]. Official website. Retrieved 23 March 2016.</ref> She was the visiting [[Alistair Horne]] Fellow at [[St Antony's College, Oxford|St Antony's College, University of Oxford]] in 2004-2005.<ref>[http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/AlistairHorneFellowship2012.pdf The Alistair Horne Fellowship (with list of past Fellows)]. St Antony's College, Oxford. Retrieved 10 November 2012. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224084839/http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/AlistairHorneFellowship2012.pdf |date=24 February 2012 }}</ref><br />
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Schofield is married to Stephen Willis and has three adult children.<ref name="personal"/><br />
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== Published works ==<br />
*''Bhutto: Trial and Execution.'' London: Cassell, 1979. {{ISBN|9780304305391}}.<br />
*''The United Nations: People, Politics, and Power.'' Hove: Wayland, 1979. {{ISBN|9780853406563}}.<br />
*''Every Rock, Every Hill: The Plain Tale of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan.'' London: Pimlico, 1984, 1987. {{ISBN|978-0712616256}}.<br />
*''Kashmir in the Crossfire.'' London, Tauris, 1996. {{ISBN|9781860640360}}.<br />
*(ed.) ''Old Roads, New Highways: Fifty Years of Pakistan''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. {{ISBN|9780195778458}}.<br />
*''The House That Fell Down: A Diary of a Domestic Disaster.'' London: John Murray, 2001. {{ISBN|9780719563294}}.<br />
*''Wavell: Soldier and Statesman.'' London: John Murray, 2006. {{ISBN|9780719563201}}.<br />
*''Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia / At the Crossroads of Conflict.'' London: Tauris Parke, 2003, 2010. {{ISBN|9781417556922}}.<br />
*''Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unending War.'' London: Tauris, 2000, 2003, 2010. {{ISBN|9781860645457}}.<br />
*''Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. {{ISBN|9780300179019}}.<br />
*''The Highland Furies: The Black Watch 1739-1899''. London: Quercus, 2012. {{ISBN|9781849165501}}.<br />
*''The Black Watch: Fighting in the Front Line, 1899-2006''. London: Head of Zeus, 2017. {{ISBN|9781784979973}}.<br />
*''With The Royal Navy in War and Peace: O'Er the Dark Blue Sea'' (Editor). London: Pen & Sword, 2018. {{ISBN|9781526736475}}<br />
*''The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto''. London: Apollo, 2020. {{ISBN|9781789544459}}.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Official website|http://www.victoriaschofield.com/}}.<br />
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