About three quarters through The White Queen now. It has gotten better, not in writing, but I do think its more historically bent then I would have at first expected. I liked how Gregory went into the battle events and does bring in the revolving relationships (the import of so many shifts in England and the affects of international relations, like the French alliances and Scotland). I've just gotten to the part where Elizabeth sets up the fake little prince Richard to go into the tower with her other son Edward V and sends the real Richard to Flanders. As popular as this mth is, I dont think it fits with the fact that Elizabeth sets up the marriage between her daughter Elizabeth and Henry Tudor. Why would she put together a match like that if she KNEW that a male York heir was alive? Unless she didn't care if her son came to the throne, and would rather have him living in obscurity in Flanders, safe from his uncle Richard. But in that case why would she have Elizabeth marry Henry Tudor? Why would she care if there was a York on the throne?
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