So one of my main historical love ins is with The Tudors, big surprise there! :P Philippa Gregory is one of the best historical fiction writers of our time as she covers a broad time period and researches each charatcter throughly, and one of her books "The Other Bolyen Girl" was made into a film starring Eric Bana, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, which catapulated her to world wide fame as a writer. She recently released a series of books based on The War of the Roses entitled "The Cousin's War" There are currently four main books in the series but there is fifth in the pipeline
.The books are titled;
"The White Queen" which is written from the view point of Elizabeth Woodville's perspective who is most famous for being the mother of the ill fated Princes in the Tower and the mother of the future wife of Henry VII.
"The Red Queen" which tells the story of Margret Beaufort, her quest to put her son, Henry Tudor on the throne and her desperate love for Jasper Tudor who Henry is the ward of.
"The Lady of the Rivers" is the story of Jacquetta Rivers, the mother of Elizabeth Woodville, and her story of constantly fighting just to stay alive.
"The Kingmaker's Daughter" the story of Anne Neville, the daughter of the Earl of Warwick, also known as the "kingmaker" and her marriage first to Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales and then to her childhood crush Richard, Duke of Glouster. later Richard III.
The BBC have produced a series of episodes based on these books titled "The White Queen".
In my next few blogs I will be writing a review on each episode the BBC show and giving my views as to whether it is historically accurate and true to the books.
People are welcome to comment as to whether they agree or disagree depending on their views of each character!
Just so everybody knows The White Queen television series is on BBC at 9:00 Sunday Night and there will be 10 episodes.
I seriously recommend watching it :)
love laura x
