The Starz cable-television channel has been broadcasting a trilogy of historical movies based on novels written by Philippa Gregory.
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The trilogy's first part was The White Queen, which Starz broadcast in 2013. The second part was The White Princess, broadcast in 2017. Now Starz is about to broadcast the third part, The Spanish Princess, in May 2019. Each part of the trilogy is about ten hours long.
I watched The White Queen and The White Princess, and I judge them to be the best shows I ever have watched on television. Therefore I am looking forward to watching The Spanish Princess.
The White Queen and The White Princess have not been available on-demand for a long time, but because of the imminent broadcast of The Spanish Princess, Starz has made those first two parts available on-demand again. I intend to binge-watch those first two parts again, before The Spanish Princess begins.
Basically, this trilogy is about the end of Britain's Plantagenet Dynasty and the beginning of the Tudor Dynasty. The trilogy takes place from 1464 to about 1515. This period is covered also by a series of plays written by William Shakespeare. Gregory's trilogy focuses on the women in this history.
* The White Queen is Elizabeth Woodville, who became the wife of King Edward IV.
* The White Princess is Elizabeth of York, who became the wife of King Henry VII.
* The Spanish Princess is Catherine of Aragon, who became the first wife of King Henry VIII.
The color White refers to The Wars of the Roses, which was fought between the White Roses and the Red Roses.
If you have Starz available on your cable television, then start watching The White Queen on demand. You will not be able to stop watching the entire trilogy.
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I read a few months ago that some geneticists believe Woodville's mother passed a gene to Henry VIII that messed up Catherine's and Anne's pregnancies after their first. Forgot the name, but it was like Rh factor incompatibility--mother and father have different genes that don't play well together.
ReplyDeleteThey also think she passed a gene that caused his middle-aged paranoia and general nastiness--it wasn't just his unhealed leg wound and severe concussion.
I saw some of the White Queen on Netflix last year.
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