The White Queen : The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels #2 /

Gregory, Philippa

The White Queen : The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels #2 / The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Philippa Gregory. - First Touchstone hardcover edition - 415 pages map, genealogy table 24 cm. - Cousins' war ; bk. 1 . - Gregory, Philippa. Cousins' war bk. 1. . - The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, 2 .

"A Touchstone book." Includes an Author's note : "This new novel, the first of a series about the Plantaganets."-- p. 409.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-415).

In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown.

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Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492 --Fiction
Edward V, King of England, 1470-1483 --Fiction
Richard, Duke of York, 1472-1483 --Fiction
Edward V, King of England, 1470-1483 --Death and burial--Fiction
Richard, Duke of York, 1472-1483 --Death and burial--Fiction
Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485 --Fiction


Murder--History--England--To 1500--Fiction
Queens--Great Britain--Fiction


Great Britain--History--Edward IV, 1461-1483--Fiction
Great Britain--History--Richard III, 1483-1485--Fiction
Great Britain--History--Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485--Fiction


Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

PR6057.R386 / W48 2009b

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