Caroline Margery Conyers Worsdell was an English historian and biographer. The only child of Muriel and Cedric Worsdell, she was educated at several schools, including The Mount, York, and Cheltenham Ladies' College, and read history at Bristol University.
In 1958 she married Andrew Bingham and the couple had one daughter in 1961. The marriage dissolved in 1972.
Bingham was a Research Fellow at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College between 1985 and 1987.
Her first book, The Making of a King: James VI and I was published in 1968, and immediately established her as an authority on Scottisg history and culture. Her later books, many on Scottish subjects, confirmed her as an outstanding biographer and historian.