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‘She meant Prince Richard? The younger boy?’ ‘She cried out at first and then she said: “At least Richard is safe”.’ ‘Go on,’ I say but I can feel a cold shiver of dread creeping up my spine. ’ He breaks off, as if he dare not name it. But, Lady Margaret, she said a terrible thing. ‘She was deeply shocked she could not believe it. That Richard had them killed either on the day of his coronation, or as he left London.’ So I told her what everyone in the City is saying: that they are dead. ‘I didn’t know what you would have me say. ‘She had been told that the princes were dead, and she was begging me to tell her that it was not the case.’ ‘The Queen Elizabeth summoned me to sanctuary last night and she was distraught,’ he says quietly. We are alone in my privy chamber and I let him take a stool and sit opposite me, almost as an equal. At once I say I am feeling unwell, and send all my women away. I go to bed uneasy, and the very next day, straight after matins, Dr Lewis comes to my rooms looking strained and anxious. She welcomes visitors to her site Excerpt. She lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire.

A former student of Sussex University, and a PhD and Alumna of the Year at Edinburgh University, her love of history is the hallmark of her writing. She has raised funds and paid for 160 wells for the primary schools of this poor African country.

Philippa's other great interest is the charity that she founded nearly twenty years ago: Gardens for The Gambia.

This book is the first of a new series of novels set in medieval Europe: Order of Darkness. She has written several bestselling novels set in the Tudor period and The Cousins' War series which is to be a major TV production. Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the international bestseller The Other Boleyn Girl, which became a major film starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.

The red queen philippa gregory tv series