Philippa is a member of the Society of Authors and in 2016, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers’ Association. She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University of London. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. Now a recognised authority on women’s history, Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009.
Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Edward got a rather shaggy beard and very heavy eye make up before retreating under a pile of furs to die.Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. Elizabeth showed she was older by putting on a version of mum Jacquetta's woolly cardigan thing and trying out her bun hairstyle. Only marginally but it was still a vast improvement on the 25 year old king and queen who have been marauding through medieval England without a care or a grey hair for the last seven weeks. Hoorah! After 19 years and endless wars, fights, children and weeping they aged. It was all very bizarre but ultimately far more engaging than the weeks of whining we've had to endure from Elizabeth.īack to the action which all started with the moment we've all been waiting for - Edward and Elizabeth looked slightly older. Gone was the nervous, good hearted but ambitious girl of the show so far and in her place a strange Victorian governess who spent every waking moment pushing her husband to become king.
Sadly, it was so far removed from the personality she'd displayed in the last seven installments that it was like watching a different character. What Anne wants, Anne gets - the Kingmaker's daughter made herself a queen this weekĪnne Neville came into her own in this episode.
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