The People Behind The Foundation
Our dedicated team of experts brings together decades of experience in history, communications, and law to preserve Tudor heritage for future generations.
Dakota Rea Henry Fitzroy Tudor V
Founder & Heritage Conservator
Jeremy Bentham Scholar, Oxford | Harvard Graduate & Researcher
Dakota Rea Henry Fitzroy Tudor V is a Jeremy Bentham Scholar from Oxford and a Harvard graduate and researcher who has always felt a profound connection to the Tudor era and its remarkable figures. What began as academic fascination transformed into a deeply personal journey of discovery.
Through extensive ancestry DNA research, Dakota uncovered an extraordinary truth: he carries direct lineage to the Tudor dynasty through an illegitimate but recognized bastard line, making him a likely 15th generation great-grandson of King Henry VIII.
With this profound personal connection to Tudor history and royal heritage, Dakota established The Tudor Foundation to ensure that the remarkable legacy of the Tudor dynasty continues to inspire and educate future generations.
Stephanie Hale BEM
Director of PR and Communications
British Empire Medal (BEM) for Services to Authors & Literature | Former BBC & IRN Newsreader | Creative Writing M.A.
Stephanie Hale BEM is an award-winning author and publishing expert who received a British Empire Medal for services to authors and literature in the Queen's New Year Honours 2017. With over 15 years' experience as a journalist and broadcaster, she began her career as a newsreader and reporter for Independent Radio News (IRN) before moving to the BBC, where her news stories were broadcast nationwide on Radio 1, Radio 4, and Radio 3.
She attended the world-famous UEA Creative Writing Course, tutored by authors Malcolm Bradbury and Whitbread winner Rose Tremain. She is former Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Oxford University and has also lectured at Cambridge University. She founded Oxford Literary Consultancy in 2001 and has featured in anthologies alongside Lord Richard Attenborough, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey, and Hanif Kureishi.
An award-winning novelist and non-fiction author of eleven books, her works have been published by Virago Press, Aufbau-Verlag, and Robert Hale Ltd. Contributors to her books include Jeffrey Archer, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Terry Pratchett, Bernard Cornwell, Joanne Harris, and Alexander McCall Smith, among many other celebrated authors and entrepreneurs.
Dr Heather Allansdottir DPhil
Legal Director
DPhil Oxford | Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre, Cambridge | Helene du Coudray Prize Winner
Dr Heather Allansdottir is a distinguished academic and space law expert. She completed her doctorate in comparative constitutional law at the University of Oxford's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, with her thesis on the post-Mubarak Egyptian constitutions. She currently serves as Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge and lectures at Birkbeck University in London, where she is Deputy Director of LLB and LLM programmes.
Her debut novel 'Psalm 119' (2008), published when she was 23, was awarded the prestigious Helene du Coudray Prize. She has held academic posts in Tel Aviv, Moscow, and Iceland, where she worked on the Icelandic constitution at Bifröst University. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, and The Globe and Mail.
Her book on space law, 'New Perspectives in Outer Space Law', co-authored with Naman Anand, was published by Springer in 2025. She specialises in the legal frameworks governing orbital rights, resource extraction, international treaties, and space sustainability, and is founder of the space consultancy Astrodottir.