The white queen
By: Philippa Gregory.
Edition: 1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Series: Cousins' war -- bk. 1
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9781416563686
Subjects: 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 -- England -- History -- 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
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: Cousins' war. ;
Description: 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.
Notes: "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).