![]() ![]() The real Duke of York was last seen being rowed to safety down the Thames. Whether this would have worked must be open to doubt of course. ![]() When Gloucester demanded she hand over her younger son, Richard, Duke of York, to join his brother in The Tower, viewers of The White Queen will recall that Elizabeth sent a changeling in his place. When Richard Duke of Gloucester seized young Edward V on the road to London, his mother Elizabeth Woodville took herself and her other children into sanctuary in Westminster Abbey. ![]() Nevertheless, Philippa Gregory suggests a very interesting theory for the fate of the Princes in the Tower. But this reviewer felt she spent too much time dwelling on Elizabeth’s tortured mind and endless fears, making the book too long and the reader impatient for the next development. Writing in the first person, Philippa gets well inside the skin of the Yorkist princess who was betrothed to Lancastrian Henry Vll in an effort to unite their warring houses. Philippa’s extensive research appears to give her a peerless grasp of what life was like for a Tudor queen. If you enjoyed The White Queen TV series, based on Philippa Gregory’s book, your next step should be to read her follow-up novel The White Princess – the story of Elizabeth Woodville’s daughter, Elizabeth of York. Tony Boullemier reviews Philippa Gregory’s novel The White Princess and compares her theory on the Princes in the Tower to that of David Baldwin in his work of research, The Lost Prince. ![]()
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