Dr William Swift Biography

Dr William Swift

For over twenty years, Will Swift, Ph.D., has written on American leaders and British royalty of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for Majesty Magazine and other publications.
He has curated several major exhibitions on royal history including one in New York City which celebrated the Queen Mother's 100th birthday. His interest in British monarchs from Victoria through Elizabeth II led him to found the Royalty Bookshop in Manhattan, the Royal Commemorative Association of North America, and Sceptre, a journal on royal history and collecting.

Will Swift is currently researching a book on The Kennedys in London, which details the climactic years of Joseph Kennedy’s ambassadorship from 1938 to 1940.
Will Swift is also a practicing clinical psychologist specializing in cognitive and marital therapy. FDR once visited his home, the Nathan Wild House, in Valatie, New York. He also lives in Manhattan.