Philippa Gregory

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« Philippa Gregory is the author of many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women’s history. Her work has been adapted for the screen in The Other Boleyn Girl movie and the critically acclaimed STARZ miniseries The White Queen and The White Princess. Her most recent novel is The Last Tudor. She graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent. She holds two honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and was awarded the 2016 Harrogate Festival Award for Contribution to Historical Fiction. She welcomes visitors to her website, PhilippaGregory.com.
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Philippa Gregory is the author of many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women’s history. Her work has been adapted for the screen in The Other Boleyn Girl movie and the critically acclaimed STARZ miniseries The White Queen and The White Princess. Her most recent novel is The Last Tudor. She graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent. She holds two honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and was awarded the 2016 Harrogate Festival Award for Contribution to Historical Fiction. She welcomes visitors to her website, PhilippaGregory.com.

Books by this Author

The Last Tudor

By Philippa Gregory

Dark Tracks

By Philippa Gregory

Order of Darkness Volumes I-III

By Philippa Gregory

Wideacre

By Philippa Gregory

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Videos

Who Was The Last Tudor?

THE LAST TUDOR by Philippa Gregory | Official U.S. Book Trailer

Three Sisters, Three Queens

Ask the Author: Philippa Gregory Answers Fan Questions

Philippa Gregory Introduces 'The Taming of the Queen'

Tudor Trivia

Philippa Gregory on her Audiobooks

Philippa Gregory introduces The King's Curse

Philippa Gregory: What Are You Reading?

The White Princess by Philippa Gregory

Phillippa Gregory's The Kingmaker's Daughter

Why was Warwick Called The Kingmaker?

Philippa Gregory reads an passage from Richard III from

Philippa Gregory reads from her novel The Kingmaker's Daughter...

Tell us about Anne Neville's view of Elizabeth Woodville...

How was Anne Neville's story?

Tell us about your novel, The Kingmaker's Daughter...

Philippa Gregory discusses her audiobook, CHANGELING

Changeling, Philippa Gregory's First Teen Novel

The Changeling Trailer, Philippa Gregory's first YA title

The Women of the Cousins' War

The Standard of Woodville

Lady of the Rivers introduction

The Duke of Bedford

Philippa Gregory on THE LADY OF THE RIVERS

Reading One from The Lady of the Rivers introduction

Margaret of Anjou

Chronological order of The Cousins' War books

Alchemy

Philippa Gregory on THE LADY OF THE RIVERS

My Life in 8 Words

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Diverse, entertaining, joyful, complex, busy, fulfilled, interesting, loving, integrated

Author Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim?

A. Walk Home.

Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?

A. I am lucky in that I am in my study overlooking my garden in a beautiful part of England and the sun is shining. I wouldn't be anywhere but here.

Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?

A. Loyalty, authenticity and a loving heart

Q. What are your most overused words or phrases?

A. Voila!-- ever since I wrote in the character of Mary, Queen of Scots in The Other Queen

Q. What is your greatest achievement?

A. My charity, Gardens for the Gambia, which has put more than a hundred wells in primary schools in The Gambia, changing the lives of thousands of children.

Author Interviews

White Queen Q&A

A Conversation with Philippa Gregory, author of The White Queen

For readers who love your books set in Tudor England, what you would like them to know about the Plantagenets and the House of York?

I suppose I’d like them to know that here is a family just as fascinating as the Tudors, perhaps more so. Certainly, they are more complicated, more wicked, and more passionate—takers of great risk. I think people have been put off this period because it has...

Red Queen QA

A Conversation with Philippa Gregory, Author of The Red Queen

Margaret Beaufort is a very different character than Elizabeth Woodville, star of The White Queen. Was it difficult for you to shift perspective and write in the voice of a woman, in this case The Red Queen, who is the enemy of the main character of your previous book?

One of the most difficult things I have ever done in writing was shift my own perspective so that after three years of thinking...

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