The White Princess

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Large Print / Fiction / Historical / Gregory, Philippa	4-week checkout	Due 04-24-2024

Passionately in love with Richard III in spite of her arranged marriage to pretender to the throne Henry Tudor, Princess Elizabeth of York is forced to marry the man who murdered her lover and create a royal family under the controlling gaze of his mother, Margaret Beaufort.

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Queen Elizabeth submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on June 24, 2022, 10:47am Philippa Gregory's series of novels about the War of the Roses (called the Cousin's War at the time), culminates with "The White Princess." The story is about Princess Elizabeth, who eventually married English King Henry VII and thereby becomes queen. Their marriage united the York and Lancaster factions of the war, thus bringing it to an end. Henry was the first of the Tudor dynasty that eventually died out with his granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth I (known as Good Queen Bess).
The novel has some very disturbing elements that may not be historically accurate. The novel portrays Elizabeth as willingly having an affair with her uncle, King Richard III. It also shows Henry forcing Elizabeth to get pregnant before he agrees to marry her.