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A novel set in Tudor England about a young woman who makes her way in the world with only her looks, her cunning and her magic to give her power—but at what price?
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This tells the riveting story of Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, caught between loyalty to the new crown and to her royal family.
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The Red Queen crosses the battle lines to the Lancaster side, where Margaret Beaufort plots to win the throne of England for her family.
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PHILIPPA GREGORY is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women’s history. Her Cousins’ War novels are the basis for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen. She studied history at the University of Sussex and received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. She welcomes visitors to her website, PhilippaGregory.com.
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GARDENS FOR THE GAMBIA
Philippa Gregory visited The Gambia, one of the driest and poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa, in 1993 and paid for a well to be hand-dug in a village primary school at Sika. Now—more than 200 wells later—she continues to raise money and commission wells in village schools, community gardens, and in The Gambia’s only agricultural college. She works with her representative in The Gambia, headmaster Ismaila Sisay, and their charity now funds pottery and batik classes, beekeeping, and adult literacy programs.
GARDENS FOR THE GAMBIA is a registered charity in the UK and the United States, and a registered NGO in The Gambia. Every donation, however small, goes to The Gambia without any deductions. If you would like to learn more about the work that Philippa calls “the best thing that I do,” visit her website www.PhilippaGregory.com and click on GARDENS FOR THE GAMBIA where you can make a donation and join with Philippa in this project.
“Every well we dig provides drinking water for a school of about 6oo children, and waters the gardens where they grow vegetables for the school dinners. I don’t know of a more direct way to feed hungry children and teach them to farm for their future.”
Philippa Gregory
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Endpapers: The graffito of Geoffrey Pole’s signature was found carved on a wall in the Tower of London, photographed by Johnny Ring. The plan of the Tower: “The Tower of London” from London, Volume II by Charles Knight, 1841.
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Gregory, Philippa.
The king’s curse / Philippa Gregory.
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1. Salisbury, Margaret Pole, Countess of, 1473–1541—Fiction. 2. Ladies-in-waiting—England—History—16th century—Fiction. 3. Henry VIII, King of England, 1491–1547—Fiction. 4. Great Britain—History—Henry VIII, 1509–1547—Fiction. 5. Nobility—Great Britain—History—16th century—Fiction. I. Title.
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