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.
Poor sweet Gilly is one of Craster’s wives, the disgusting polygamous quarrelsome man north of the wall who marries his daughters. Samwell Tarly befriends Gilly and rescues her after she delivers a would-have-been-sacrificed baby boy. Gilly mentions the origin of her name in passing: “Gilly” stems (no pun intended) from the gillyflower, which is the old-fashioned name Chaucer, Shakespeare, and others use for carnations.
