In 2018, she was awarded an Honorary Platinum Award by Nielsen for achieving significant lifetime sales across her entire book output. 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. The Red Queen is a novel of conspiracy, passion, and coldhearted ambition, the story of a proud and determined woman who believes that she alone is destined, by her piety and lineage, to shape the course of history. 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. The Red Queen is a novel of conspiracy, passion, and coldhearted ambition, the story of a proud and determined woman who believes that she alone is destined, by her piety and lineage, to shape the course of history. The heroine is Lady Margaret Beaufort, who I had vaguely heard of but didnt know much about, other than she was a tough old biddy who gave birth to the future Henry VII at the age of thirteen. 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. The Red Queen is 2 in Philippa Gregorys Cousins War series about the Wars of the Roses. Margaret Beaufort, a cousin of Henry VI, vows from an early age to be as pious and staunch as Joan of Arc, and to someday be known as Margaret R., for Regina. 3, 2010 Second in Gregory’s series about the War of the Roses, this time featuring a determined matriarch of the Lancastrian clan. Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. The Red Queen is a novel of conspiracy, passion, and coldhearted ambition, the story of a proud and determined woman who believes that she alone is destined, by her piety and lineage, to shape the course of history. THE RED QUEEN by Philippa Gregory RELEASE DATE: Aug.

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