by | Aug 12, 2013

This smolderingly handsome guy burns up the screen with a stare.

Aneurin Barnard in The White Queen

BBC History – The White Queen: The real story of Elizabeth Woodville

BBC History – The White Queen: The real story of Elizabeth Woodville

by | Jun 16, 2013

BBC History – The White Queen: The real story of Elizabeth Woodville

Princes in the Tower
Elizabeth Woodville’s sons where imprisoned in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard III. They were never seen again

When Edward died in 1483, Elizabeth’s world changed completely. Her twelve-year-old son was declared king Edward V, while his uncle Richard was appointed Protector. However, rumours surfaced that Elizabeth’s husband had made a previous betrothal which would have invalidated her marriage and made her children illegitimate. Richard took the throne and shut his nephew Edward and his younger brother in the Tower of London. They were never seen again and historians today still disagree about their fates.

by | Jun 16, 2013

The first episode turns on Edward’s desire for Elizabeth. How did she go about playing the sexiness of that? “It’s a love story between two people,” she says, “a girl and a boy that today would be wearing jeans.”

In the aftermath of lots of big US cable dramas, however, such as Game of Thrones and The Borgias, and even UK series such as The Tudors, you might expect that the drama will be driven by copious sex and violence. In fact, the production eschews battle scenes – they happen off screen – to focus on the complex, shifting allegiances and power plays of the main characters, all seen, as they are in Gregory’s book, through the eyes of women at the centre of the struggle for power.

(via The White Queen: Behind the scenes at the BBC’s summer blockbuster – Telegraph)