Juliet Rieden is an editor, journalist, biographer, non-fiction author, royal correspondent and book reviewer. She is currently researching and writing the authorised biography of Dame Quentin Bryce, Australia’s trailblazing first female Governor-General, former Sex Discrimination Commissioner and human rights advocate, published by Penguin Random House. In addition to working on this biography, Juliet is also currently employed as a freelance journalist, media commentator and royal correspondent.
Until April 2024 Juliet was on staff for 14 years at The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine, in senior roles including Editor-at-Large,  Acting Editor-in-Chief, Editor and Deputy Editor. These roles involved writing the main cover features and interviews, working as the magazine’s highly respected royal correspondent and also its books editor and reviewer.
Her interviewees have included King Charles III, Queen Mary of Denmark, Dame Helen Mirren, Queen Camilla, Princess Anne, Prince Edward, Zara and Mike Tindall, Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York, Glenn Close, Jane Fonda, former New Zealand Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern, former Australian Prime Minister the Hon Malcolm Turnbull, former Minister for Foreign Affairs the Hon Julie Bishop, Ita Buttrose, Maggie Tabberer, Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales. Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Sir Ian McKellen, Hilary Mantel, Clive James, Sally Field, Dame Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Hugh Bonneville, Jamie Oliver, Dame Julie Andrews, Ash Barty, Dame Joanna Lumley, Cate Blanchett, Annabel Crabb, Leigh Sales, Graham Norton, Sarah Brightman and more.
On TV, radio and  online she is the royal commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and also appears on networks including the BBC, ITV, Times Radio, LBC, 2GB, Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Sky News Channel, SBS, CNN and Channel Ten. For more than a decade she has been a regular on-screen contributor for TV documentaries including ABC’s The Queen And Us, BBC’s The Queen:Her Commonwealth Story, SBS’s Every Family has a Secret.
As an author, Juliet’s critically acclaimed book The Writing on the Wall, published by Pan Macmillan, is a powerful and deeply personal investigation into her family’s fate in the Holocaust; her father’s escape from Hitler aged eight, while his parents and relatives were sent to concentration camps.
Juliet researched and ghost-wrote Rising Heart, the memoir of Sierra Leonean refugee Aminata Conteh-Biger who was brutally kidnapped by rebels in the civil war and escaped to Australia to courageously create a new life as a humanitarian change-maker and mother of two.
Juliet’s The Royals in Australia charts the history of the royal family in Australia from 1867 to the present day and is based on extensive research and interviews including unique access to private letters and diaries in the Royal Archives in Windsor Castle. The hardback book also features more than 150 photographs.
Juliet contributed two chapters to Untold Resilience, stories of courage, survival and love from women who have gone before. She also contributed to Postcards From Tomorrow and wrote and edited three editions of the Time Out Guide to Sydney published by Penguin Books, London.
Juliet has been a journalist for more than 35 years working between the UK and Australia for magazines, newspapers and online sites as a writer and editor. Prior to joining The Australian Women’s Weekly, Juliet was Deputy Editor of InStyle Australia, Senior Commissioning Editor at the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper and Entertainments Editor at UK’s The Mail on Sunday newspaper in London.
Other publications Juliet has worked for on staff or freelance include Point de Vue magazine (France), Stellar magazine (Australia), Town & Country website (US), Hello! magazine (UK), TVTimes magazine (UK), Radio Times magazine (UK), The European newspaper (UK), Today newspaper (UK), Time Out magazine London, The Weekend Australian newspaper, The Sun-Herald (Sydney) newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper (Sydney), 9Honey website (Australia), The Carousel website (Australia), Who Weekly magazine (Australia), TV Week magazine (Australia), New Woman magazine (Australia), Vacations & Travel magazine (Australia).
Juliet co-hosted 17 episodes of the podcast The Royal Record, created by Listnr (Australia) and has been a contributor to other podcasts for ABC and Spotify.
Juliet has been a judge for the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Walkley Awards book category and an interviewee and moderator for book festival events in Australia.
In 2018 Juliet became a Board Trustee for Prince’s Trust Australia. The charity supports young people, veterans and their families and sustainable building initiatives and was renamed The King’s Trust Australia in April 2024.