The final episode of The White Queen aired on 18 August 2013 and the miniseries was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc the following day. Elizabeth Woodville is the protagonist in the novel The White Queen, and Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville are the focus of the novels The Red Queen and The Kingmaker's Daughter the three characters appear in the three novels that make up the television miniseries. The story follows three women, Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville, who manipulate events behind the scenes of history to gain power. It starts in 1464 the nation has been at war for nine years fighting over who is the rightful king as two sides of the same family, the House of York and the House of Lancaster, contest the throne. The miniseries is set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses and presents the story of the women involved in the long conflict for the throne of England. It was first broadcast in the United States on Starz on August 9, 2013. The first episode premiered on BBC One on 16 June 2013 in the United Kingdom. It is based on Philippa Gregory's historical novel series The Cousins' War ( The White Queen, The Red Queen, and The Kingmaker's Daughter).
Of course I don’t know how much of the story is immediately clear to people who haven’t read the book and aren’t familiar with the history of the Wars of the Roses, but it seemed to me that it wasn’t too difficult to follow.The White Queen is a British historical period drama television miniseries developed for BBC One.
The first episode was slow paced and allowed for the viewers to familiarise themselves with the storyline and the characters, and it made the first episode very pleasant and clear to watch. The actors have been very well cast in my opinion, especially for the roles of Elizabeth Woodville, Jacquetta Rivers and Lord Warwick. Hats off for the cinematography by the way, because the images are absolutely stunning. I needn’t have worried though, because I absolutely loved the first episode! The fact that they’ve turned it into a TV series rather than a film was a clever move, because it means that they can go into much more detail and stick closer to the book’s storyline. I dislike that film with a passion, which is why I was rather nervous about the adaptation of The White Queen.
And this is exactly why I didn’t enjoy the previous Philippa Gregory adaptation, The Other Boleyn Girl. And on top of that screenplay writers or directors often have the urge to change rather important parts of the book or leave them out entirely, which annoys me to no end. Very often books get made into films, and in my opinion it’s almost impossible to do a book justice in just 90 minutes. I am usually a little wary about book adaptations for the simple fact that it’s very hard to get it right, and also because it’s extremely difficult to make it to everyone’s taste.
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