Victoria Schofield

Rosemary Victoria Schofield (born 15 September 1950) Her most recent books are a memoir of her thirty year friendship with Benazir Bhutto, a two volume history of the Black Watch and a biography of Sir John Wheeler-Bennett. She also wrote the first full-length biography of Field Marshal Archibald Wavell and edited a memoir of his life and naval career by her late father Vice Admiral Brian Schofield. She regularly contributes to British national and specialist media.

Life and career Born in Washington, D.C. in 1950, one of the daughters of Vice-Admiral Brian Betham Schofield and his third wife Grace Mildred Seale, Schofield was educated at the Royal Naval School for Girls, and at 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 President of the Oxford Union Society in the Trinity term of 1977. She was the Alistair Horne visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, in 2004–2005.

In 1982, Schofield married Stephen Willis, and she has three adult children.

Published works Bhutto: Trial and Execution. London: Cassell, 1979. . The United Nations: People, Politics, and Power. Hove: Wayland, 1979. . Every Rock, Every Hill: The Plain Tale of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan. London: Pimlico, 1984, 1987. . Kashmir in the Crossfire. London, Tauris, 1996. . (ed.) Old Roads, New Highways: Fifty Years of Pakistan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. . The House That Fell Down: A Diary of a Domestic Disaster. London: John Murray, 2001. . Wavell: Soldier and Statesman. London: John Murray, 2006. . Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia / At the Crossroads of Conflict. London: Tauris Parke, 2003, 2010. . Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unending War. London: Tauris, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2021. . Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. . The Highland Furies: The Black Watch 1739-1899. London: Quercus, 2012. . The Black Watch: Fighting in the Front Line, 1899-2006. London: Head of Zeus, 2017. . With The Royal Navy in War and Peace: O'er the Dark Blue Sea (Editor). Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2018. The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto. London: Apollo, 2020. . The Rescue Ships and the Convoys, Saving Lives during the Second World War. (Editor & Author) Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2024,