![]() ![]() Reviewer: Well, The White Queen is something of a departure for Philippa Gregory because, over the course of six novels (from The Other Boleyn Girl, through The Queen’s Fool, The Virgin’s Lover, The Constant Princess, The Boleyn Inheritance and The Other Queen), she has made Tudor history her own. ![]() Although the novel charts Elizabeth’s rise, in the main, it also offers Philippa Gregory to put her spin on what she thinks happened to the two young princes (which is one of those historical conundrums that has foxed historians for hundreds of years). She already had kids by her first husband (who was killed in battle) but with Edward went on to have Richard and Edward, who are the infamous ‘princes in the tower’ and Elizabeth of York, who married Henry VII, which makes her Henry VIII’s Mum. So, Elizabeth and Edward married in secret and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it didn’t go down too well. Melusina is a goddess (I think she was the inspiration for Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘The Little Mermaid’). ![]() ![]() She was also a divorced commoner, the daughter of a witch and supposedly the descendant of Melusina. She was a Lancastrian and Edward a Yorkist. This particular novel is about (and narrated by) Elizabeth Woodville, who was the wife of Edward IV. The White Queen is the first part of a new trilogy about the Plantagenets. Reviewer: Although it’s much too complicated for a peasant like you, I’ll try and explain. I know that you’ve finished reading Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen. How are you getting on with the new Philippa Gregory novel, The White Queen? ![]()
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