![]() Natasha Lunn's Conversations on Love is the most important book you'll read this year READ MORE While Elizabeth lived the privileged life of a Queen, the family was often under threat due to its war against the Lancastrian heirs, she had to enter sanctuary in Westminster Abbey twice and suffered through the disappearance of her own sons after the death of her husband. The first, The White Queen, outlined the story of Elizabeth Woodville, a young widow who married King Edward IV of the York line for love and gave birth to 10 children by him. ![]() Although she has written extensively about the Tudor dynasty, famously about the Other Boleyn Girl, Mary Boleyn, sister to the infamous Anne, her greatest works to date are no doubt the War of the Roses series.īeginning with The White Queen, Gregory has written five books in the series about the women who were behind the throne in this troubled period of English History, the War of the Roses, or to the family itself, The Cousin’s War. ![]() Philppa Gregory’s has a unique talent of not only using historical facts to create wonderful works of fiction, but also breathing life into women that have mostly remained in the background in the historical narrative. ![]()
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