Loved itthe reason why i love this series so much is because it takes each of the main players in the walls of the roses in turn it focuses on the women of the story
The White Princess (2013)
Others: Positive 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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- 9781451626094
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- 528 pages
Genres: historical fiction
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