Ruth Myers (handwriting analyst)

Ruth Myers (born 21 March 1933) is a professional forensic handwriting analyst. She specialises in analysing poison pen letters and forgeries, some of which go to court. Myers uses scientific techniques to examine documents which also include personality assessment, using only a sample of handwriting. She analyses drawn doodles as well as written text.

Ruth has a YouTube channel under the username "RuthMyersGraphology" in which her Television and other appearances are distributed. Myers appeared on Big Brother's Little Brother in July 2010, and has also been on BBC Radio 2, The Paul O' Grady Show, Sky News, BBC Wales and other media, including the News of the World - which was shut down in 2011. She has also analysed Prince William and Kate Middleton's handwriting for The Sun newspaper, as well as many other celebrities, including Michael Jackson and Gordon Brown.

Her latest television appearance was on The Alan Titchmarsh Show in 2012, where she looked at brief examples of handwriting on small stands, and in a humorous revelation, when Myers claims that one sample is "aggressive", Titchmarsh admits that it is his own handwriting, Ruth later met Liz Jones, whose handwriting she had summed up as "artistic" before knowing who she genuinely was. All the conclusions she made were deemed accurate and impressive by the presenter, Liz Jones and the studio audience.

Early life

Myers was born in 1933 in London to parents Simon and Anne Olins. Their family originated from Russia, Austria and other Eastern European areas but immigrated to the United Kingdom due to religious persecution in those areas. She attended a convent school, but during World War II, she is believed to have been evacuated to the Cambridge region with other family. Circa the 1970s, Myers owned a clothes shop. Anne Robinson is believed to have visited the store.

Graphology

She has been seen on various media as the profession has gained recent notoriety. As well as appearing on BBC Radio and Sky News, Myers' handwriting analysis has been commissioned by many newspapers such as The Sun who asked her to analyse Prince William and Kate Middleton's message in a guestbook.