Despite initial plans for a follow-up series, on 20 August 2013 the BBC announced they were not commissioning one, possibly due to the lukewarm reception the series received. [65] However, in October 2013, The Telegraph reported that Starz was planning to develop a sequel miniseries called The White Princess, based on Gregory's 2013 novel of the same name. [66] May 6 will see King Charles crowned – with three days of celebrations over the bank holiday weekend. sets in 120 days including: every season, three weddings, two coronations and 12 state banquets. Horses, carriages, swords, daggers, shields and spears, boats, beds, dogs, dungeons, castles, palaces, parliament, battles - it was all there.

At noon the next day I am in my ordinary gown, seated in my privy chamber, when the girl comes in a rush to say that the king is riding down the road towards the Hall. I don’t let myself run to the window to look for him, I don’t allow myself a dash to the hammered-silver looking glass in my mother’s room. I put down my sewing, and I walk down the great wooden stairs, so that when the door opens and he comes into the hall, I am serenely descending, looking as if I am called away from my household chores to greet a surprise guest. He looks sharply at me, suspicious of this easy obedience. You don’t think you owe him your favor? Your smiles? Worse? Amanda Hale as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor, a great-granddaughter of John, Duke of Lancaster The final episode of The White Queen aired on 18 August 2013 and the drama was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc the following day. Two days later, the BBC confirmed that The White Queen was always planned as a miniseries that would not be returning for a second series. [7] However, there were two sequels in 2017 and 2019. He smiles. I shall try to keep it from your door, my lady. But it must be done and it must be done soon. I pardoned the Duke of Somerset and took him into my friendship, and now he has run away to Henry once more, a Lancastrian turncoat, faithless like all the Beauforts. The Percys are raising the north against me. They hate the Nevilles, and the Neville family are my greatest allies. It is like a dance now: the dancers are in their place; they have to do their steps. They will have a battle; it cannot be avoided.Gregory's 2011 novel The Lady of the Rivers is a prequel to The White Queen, narrated by Elizabeth's mother Jacquetta of Luxembourg. [5] Plot [ edit ] Death is near us all, he says seriously. But it is a constant companion to a king come to his crown through the battlefield, and now riding out to fight again. My father glances from her to me and shrugs his shoulders as if to concede the inveterate independence of willful women. He nods to my brother John and says, I am riding over to Old Stratford village. Will you come with me? And the two of them leave together.

For readers who love your books set in Tudor England, what you would like them to know about the Plantagenets and the House of York? The high table in the great hall is laid with the best glasses and a jug of ale as well as the wine. You are expecting company? he asks. The bombshell memoir is a huge point on contention for the royal family and it wouldn’t be a Coronation roundup without it.

The White Queen is a 2009 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, the first of her series The Cousins' War. It tells the story of Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort of King Edward IV of England. [1] [2] [3] The 2013 BBC One television series The White Queen is a 10-part adaptation of Gregory's novels The White Queen, The Red Queen (2010) and The Kingmaker's Daughter (2012), and features Rebecca Ferguson as Elizabeth Woodville. [4] I put my hand on the thread and pull it gently. It comes easily; there is something light and small tied onto the far end. I cannot even see what it might be, as the thread loops across the river into the reeds, in deep water on the other side. The story of the woman many label “the Woodville Witch” is one of legend. That Elizabeth cleverly manages and manipulates Edward is the stuff of history. However, Gregory, a very talented writer, deftly develops Elizabeth into a sympathetic character from a history that is not always kind to her. A significant part of that characterization, though, is an embellishment on the “witchy” aspect of the Woodvilles. After all, how does a commoner manage to get, catch and keep the eye of Edward other than by magic and sorcery? A different perspective, perhaps, and a bit distracting. Starz CEO Chris Albrecht announced in January 2014 that the network was working with White Queen screenwriter Emma Frost on the project. [67] Starz would produce the White Princess miniseries without involvement from the BBC. [67] Gregory confirmed that the project was underway in August 2015. [68] On 7 February 2016, Gregory announced on Facebook that the sequel was officially confirmed to be in production, with the scripts being written. [69] Production on the eight-episode miniseries began in June 2016. [70] [71] It aired weekly on Starz from 6 April to 4 June 2017.