The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
I turn to him and at the pain on my face he stops taunting me. “Ah, Elizabeth, don’t look like that.”
“I don’t care if he doesn’t acknowledge me, you fool,” I flare out. “It’s not a question of wanting to be queen; it’s not even a question of wanting honorable love anymore. I am mad for him, I am madly in love with him. I would go to him if I had to walk barefoot. Tell me I am one of many. I don’t care! I don’t care for my name or for my pride anymore. As long as I can have him once more, that’s all I want, just to love him; all I want to be certain of is that I will see him again, that he loves me.”
Anthony folds me in his arms and pats my back. “Of course he loves you,” he says. “What man could not? And if he does not, then he is a fool.”
“I love him,” I say miserably. “I would love him if he were a nobody.”
“No, you wouldn’t,” he says gently. “You are your mother’s child through and through; you don’t have the blood of a goddess in you for nothing. You were born to be queen and maybe everything will come out well. Maybe he loves you and will stand by you.”
I tilt my head back to scan his face. “But you don’t believe it.”
“No,” he says honestly. “To tell you the truth, I think you have seen the last of him.”
PHILIPPA GREGORY is the author of several internationally bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen, and is a recognized authority on women’s history. She studied history at the University of Sussex and received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. She lives in the north of England with her family.
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Contents
Map of Northwest Europe - 1485
The Houses of York, Lancaster, and Tudor
Chapter 1: Sheriff Hutton Castle, Yorkshire, Autumn 1485
Chapter 2: On the Great North Road, Autumn 1485
Chapter 3: Westminster Palace, London, Autumn 1485
Chapter 4: Westminster Palace, London, 30 October 1485
Chapter 5: Westminster Palace, London, November 1485
Chapter 6: Westminster Palace, London, December 1485
Chapter 7: Westminster Palace, London, The Days of Christmas, 1485
Chapter 8: Coldharbour Palace, London, Christmas Feast, 1485
Chapter 9: Westminster Palace, London, 18 January 1486
Chapter 10: Westminster Palace, London, February 1486
Chapter 11: Westminster Palace, London, March 1486
Chapter 12: Westminster Palace, London, April 1486
Chapter 13: Westminster Palace, London, May 1486
Chapter 14: Palace of Sheen, Richmond, Summer 1486
Chapter 15: St. Swithin’s Priory, Winchester, September 1486
Chapter 16: Prior’s Great Hall, Winchester, 19 September 1486
Chapter 17: Prior’s Great Hall, Winchester, 24 September 1486
Chapter 18: Westminster Palace, London, Christmas 1486
Chapter 19: The Tower of London, Spring 1487
Chapter 20: Palace of Sheen, Richmond, Spring 1487
Chapter 21: St. Mary’s in the Fields, Norwich, Summer 1487
Chapter 22: St. Mary’s in the Fields, Norwich, Summer 1487
Chapter 23: Coventry Castle, Summer 1487
Chapter 24: Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, June 1487
Chapter 25: Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, 17 June 1487
Chapter 26: Lincoln Castle, Lincoln, July 1487
Chapter 27: Westminster Palace, London, August 1487
Chapter 28: Greenwich Palace, London, November 1487
Chapter 29: Palace of Sheen, Richmond, Spring 1488
Chapter 30: Windsor Castle, Summer 1488
Chapter 31: Greenwich Palace, London, Christmas 1488
Chapter 32: Westminster Palace, London, Spring 1489
Chapter 33: Greenwich Palace, London, Autumn 1489
Chapter 34: Westminster Palace, London, November 1489
Chapter 35: Westminster Palace, London, 28 November 1489
Chapter 36: Greenwich Palace, London, June 1491
Chapter 37: Palace of Sheen, Richmond, September 1491
Chapter 38: Westminster Palace, London, Autumn 1491
Chapter 39: Westminster Palace, London, December 1491
Chapter 40: Palace of Sheen, Richmond, February 1492
Chapter 41: Bermondsey Abbey, London, Summer 1492
Chapter 42: Greenwich Palace, London, June 1492
Chapter 43: Greenwich Palace, London, Summer 1492
Chapter 44: Greenwich Palace, London, Summer–Autumn 1492
Chapter 45: Greenwich Palace, London, Winter 1492
Chapter 46: Westminster Palace, London, Spring 1493
Chapter 47: Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, Summer 1493
Chapter 48: Northampton, Autumn 1493
Chapter 49: Westminster Palace, London, Winter 1493
Chapter 50: Greenwich Palace, London, Summer 1494
Chapter 51: Westminster Palace, London, Autumn 1494
Chapter 52: The Tower of London, January 1495
Chapter 53: Westm
Chapter 54: Worcester Castle, Summer 1495
Chapter 55: Westminster Palace, London, Autumn 1495
Chapter 56: Westminster Palace, London, November 1495
Chapter 57: Westminster Palace, London, Christmas 1495
Chapter 58: Palace of Sheen, Richmond, Winter 1496
Chapter 59: Palace of Sheen, Richmond, March 1496
Chapter 60: Westminster Palace, London, Autumn 1496
Chapter 61: The Tower of London, Summer 1497
Chapter 62: Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, Summer 1497
Chapter 63: Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, Autumn 1497
Chapter 64: East Anglia, Autumn 1497
Chapter 65: Palace of Sheen, Richmond, Autumn, 1497
Chapter 66: Palace of Sheen, Richmond, Christmas 1497
Chapter 67: On Progress, Summer 1498
Chapter 68: The Tower of London, Summer 1498
Chapter 69: Westminster Palace, London, Summer 1498
Chapter 70: The Tower of London, Summer 1498
Chapter 71: Westminster Palace, London, Autumn 1498
Chapter 72: Greenwich Palace, London, Winter–Spring 1499
Chapter 73: The Isle of Wight, Summer 1499
Chapter 74: Westminster Palace, London, Summer 1499
Chapter 75: Westminster Palace, London, Autumn 1499
Chapter 76: Westminster Palace, London, Saturday, 23 November 1499
Chapter 77: Westminster Palace, London, 28 November 1499
Chapter 78: Westminster Palace, London, Winter 1499
Author’s Note
Reading Group Guide
Gardens for the Gambia
‘The White Queen’ Excerpt
About Philippa Gregory
Bibliography