The White Queen is written by Philippa Gregory and it focuses on the life of Elizabeth Woodville, who married and became the Queen of Edward IV.
Elizabeth was born into the House of Lancaster as the daughter of Jacquetta of Luxembourg and married the York King Edward in secret in 1464. The book starts from the moments just before her marriage to Edward and ends just before the accession of Henry VII.
The book includes a theory about the Princes in the Tower. They were the two sons of Elizabeth & Edward, and no one knows what happened to them. In the book, Elizabeth sends her youngest son, Richard, away where he goes to live in Burgundy. In reality, this probably didn't happen and Richard may of went to the tower with his brother, Edward. As well as this, it questions who murdered the princes (if they had been killed). Originally Elizabeth thinks Richard III, her brother-in-law, had murdered her two sons, however her suspicions soon turned to Lady Margaret Beaufort and Henry Tudor. We will probably never know the truth.
I read this book after reading the Lady of the Rivers which is about Elizabeth's mother, Jacquetta. I enjoyed learning more about Elizabeth, the woman who married a York king in secret and then became his Queen. She was also the mother of Elizabeth of York, the wife of Henry VII of England.
There is a series based on the book which I am currently watching and enjoying. It joins the White Queen with two other Philippa Gregory books, the Red Queen and the Kingmaker's Daughter.
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