Though the Dowager Queen has purposely kept her daughter in the dark about her plots, Elizabeth knows that her mother had sent her younger brother Richard to safety in Flanders, while an impostor went missing and was presumably murdered in the Tower.

Rebellion builds as a boy claiming to be the lost Richard appears and is acknowledged by Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, the sister of Elizabeth's father, Edward IV.

The charismatic young man renounces his claims and is welcomed at the English court as Perkin Warbeck, kept unharmed until Henry can determine how best to deal with him.

In 2013, Helen Brown of The Telegraph wrote that "with The White Princess, [Gregory] makes a psychologically involving page-turner of the reign that Shakespeare skipped."

[1] Publishers Weekly noted, "Gregory believably depicts this mostly forgotten queen, her moody husband, and the future Henry VIII, shown here as a charmingly temperamental child.

"[4] AudioFile magazine gave its Earphones Award to the audiobook recording of The White Princess, calling the novel "thrilling" and "richly imagined" and noting that "Philippa Gregory and [narrator] Bianca Amato have another winner.

[7] However, in October 2013, The Telegraph reported that Starz was planning to develop a sequel miniseries called The White Princess, based on Gregory's novel.

[8] Starz CEO Chris Albrecht announced in January 2014 that the network was working with White Queen screenwriter Emma Frost on the project.