The Real Events That Inspired the Greatest Show on Earth
In honor of tonight’s US premiere of The White Queen on Starz, I’ve created a new site about The White Queen: history-behind-the-white-queen.com.
I’ve also added a White Queen Cheat Sheet and an Episode 1 Viewer’s guide to the site.
The site is still a beta and under constructions. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the web programming.
My intention is to merge the two sites eventually.
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Today, I realized I’d made an oversight about Walder Frey, the treacherous lecherous slayer of Robb Stark. I kind of had an “Oh no!” moment. Rather than returning to my series of posts about the “Second Sons,” I’m going to correct this right away. George RR Martin may have drawn inspiration for Lord Frey from Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (“Warwick the Kingmaker”). As I’ve mentioned previously, George RR Martin likes to mix and match his “borrowings” from history….