the king's curse and the constant princess

Margaret’s destiny, as an heiress to the Plantagenets, is not for a life in the shadows. But Margaret’s quiet, hidden life is changed forever by the arrival of Arthur, the young Prince of Wales, and his beautiful bride, Katherine of Aragon, as Margaret soon becomes a trusted advisor and friend to the honeymooning couple. Regarded as yet another threat to the volatile King Henry VII’s claim to the throne, Margaret is buried in marriage to a steady and kind Tudor supporter – Sir Richard Pole, governor of Wales. The Tower – symbol of the Tudor usurpation of her family’s throne – haunts Margaret’s dreams until the day that her brother is executed on the orders of Henry VII. Margaret Pole spends her young life struggling to free her brother, arrested as a child, from the Tower of London. Bring on the scheming.This is the story of deposed royal Margaret Pole, and her unique view of King Henry VIII’s stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England. Who) will act as showrunners and executive producers on the series. Until she claims her marriage was never consummated and that as a virgin she may set her sights on the new heir, the charismatic and headstrong Prince Harry who will one day rule as King Henry VIII.” So much intrigue! The White Queen and White Princess writer Emma Frost and Matthew Graham ( Dr. She is Princess of Wales now, but when her husband Prince Arthur dies suddenly, the throne seems lost to Catherine. The network announced today that it has green-lit a new series called The Spanish Princess based on Gregory’s novels The Constant Princess and The King’s Curse about the young princess, who “arrives in a grey, rain-lashed England with her glorious and diverse court including her lady-in-waiting Lina - an African Moor.

Now Starz has announced a new foray into the era of squabbling British royalty: Another mini-series adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novels, this time the ones about the first of Henry VIII’s six wives, Catherine of Aragon. You know what’s hot on TV right now? The divine right of kings! You’ve got The Crown and Wolf Hall, and on Starz alone, The White Queen and The White Princess.

The king's curse and the constant princess