Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans (born 21 November 1953), is an English journalist, magazine editor, columnist, broadcaster, and author. Born a British citizen, she now holds joint citizenship after she took United States citizenship in 2005, following her emigration in 1984 to edit Vanity Fair. At the age of 25 she was appointed editor-in-chief of the British monthly Tatler and served from 1979 to 1982. From 1984 to 1992 she edited Vanity Fair and from 1992 to 1998 she was the first female editor of The New Yorker. She was founding editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, serving from 2008 to 2013. From 1998 to 2002 she was chairman of Talk Media, which included Talk Magazine and Talk Miramax Books. From 2010 to 2020 she was CEO and founding editor of Women in the World, a live journalism platform to elevate the voices of global women, both celebrated and unknown. She is author of The Diana Chronicles (2007) a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, The Vanity Fair Diaries (2017) and New York Times Bestseller The Palace Papers (2022). As a magazine editor, she has received four George Polk Awards, five Overseas Press Club awards, and ten National Magazine Awards, and in 2007 was inducted into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame. In 2021 she was honored as a Library Lion by the New York Public Library. In 2022, Women in Journalism, the UK's leading networking and training organization for journalists, honored her with their Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, she was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to journalism overseas, by HM Queen Elizabeth. She was the CBS commentator with Norah O'Donnell, Gayle King, Julian Payne, and Wesley Kerr for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022. In 2023, in partnership with Reuters and Durham University, she is hosting and producing Truth Tellers, the inaugural Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism at the RIBA, in honor of her late husband Sir Harold Evans, the celebrated former editor of The Sunday Times. Early life and education Tina Brown was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, and grew up in the village of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire. Her father, George Hambley Brown, was active in the British film industry as a producer, including the Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford. Her elder brother, Christopher Hambley Brown, became a film producer. Her