Elizabeth has to fight for her childrens’ inheritance, as Margaret of Anjou, Margaret Beaufort, Duke of Clarence (brother of King Edward IV) and Earl of Warwick (who had put King Edward IV on the throne) all risk everything in order to claim the crown.Īll the elements that annoy me about Philippa Gregory books are still there, but I was hooked to the story. Her family’s sudden rise to power creates much rift in the court, giving way to plots and betrayals of those who were once loyal. The book is set in the Wars of the Roses and is told through the eyes of Elizabeth Woodville, a Lancastrian widow who becomes the Queen of England by marrying Edward IV of York. So half of me dreading having to trudge through another Philippa’s book, and the half of me anticipating the TV series, I read on.
You see, I am such a sucker for period dramas and I have this rule not watching a dramatised version before reading the original book. They don’t divert from these simple boxed categories, and for that, I get bored of her novels.ĭespite my aversion to Gregory books, I hastily picked up The White Queen when I saw BBC’s trailer on the dramatised version. It is as if Philippa Gregory picks out a couple of simple words to base their characters on: Beautiful, Evil, Courageous, Wise, or Cowardice. I find her continuous use of first-person narrative irritating, and her characters one-dimensional.įrom the way she portrays them, you would be able to come up with two or three adjectives to describe each characters and that would be about it. Having read a couple of Philippa Gregory books already ( The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen’s Fool and the first few chapters of The Other Queen), I was quite done with her style.
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