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.
Over the next few weeks, in honor of Anne Boleyn and some of the Game of Thrones characters she may have inspired –we will be running a series of articles and interviews with historians about her. George RR Martin appears to have taken threads of factual — and counterfactual (the opposite of historical events) — aspects of Anne’s story and woven them into various Game of Thrones characters like Cersei, Margaery, and Melisandre. Each character represents a different facet of…
