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The White Queen

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ShadeofViolet · 16/06/2013 17:06

Anyone else ridiculously excited?

I know Philippa Gregory's books tend to be a bit Barbara Cartland in places, and I hope the BBC havent increased it, but I still cannot wait to watch it.

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SelectAUserName · 21/07/2013 21:15
TunipTheVegedude · 21/07/2013 21:22

Me, quite enjoying it apart from getting more and more irritated by the lack of hats and Elizabeth Woodville's Swedish accent which is just soooo distracting.

KnockMeDown · 21/07/2013 21:23

Please can you help me? My husband is threatening to take DS from me. We have 4 DDs, and now DS, and he wants to send him to Wales. Also, I walked in on him whilst he was having sex with another woman. What should I say to him? My mother is ill, so I don't want to trouble her...
Perhaps I should post this in Relationships? Sad

TunipTheVegedude · 21/07/2013 21:24

Leave the bastard.
Go and be a nun.

KnockMeDown · 21/07/2013 21:31

What about me? My sister and her husband are ignoring me, but my BIL is showing me some interest - I really like him, but he hasn't said out right that he likes me. Should I trust him? He thinks I should suck up to my sister - should I?

TunipTheVegedude · 21/07/2013 21:34

Get yourself some decent headcovering. He's never going to propose if you go around bareheaded like a whore even when you're out hunting.
Those tall pointy hats are very fashionable I hear.

KnockMeDown · 21/07/2013 21:38

Tunip I fear it is only you and I..........

SelectAUserName · 21/07/2013 21:49
Grin

Am I being unreasonable to think my husband should be more supportive when I'm about to give birth, rather than screwing my lady-in-waiting and taking his hounds hunting?

I've just realised who Richard III reminds me of - Edward Scissorhands.

courgetteDOTcom · 21/07/2013 21:51

ohh It's the sad scene I've not been looking forward toSad

TunipTheVegedude · 21/07/2013 21:51

YABU. He's the king. You sound very entitled.

AIBU to tell my prospective dh I'm not going to shag him?

courgetteDOTcom · 21/07/2013 21:53

Only if he doesn't want to shag you tooGrin

SelectAUserName · 21/07/2013 21:57

That's not looking like such a problem for you now Grin Look's like those saint's knees are going to go to waste.

TunipTheVegedude · 21/07/2013 22:00

AIBU to be a bit miffed that he doesn't want to shag me after all? I know he said he already had heirs but I didn't think he meant it Angry

SelectAUserName · 21/07/2013 22:04

YANBU. That's some EA, right there.

Meanwhile, I'm off to confession to repent of my misplaced apostrophe. I need a sign from God that He isn't a grammar pedant.

LaVolcan · 22/07/2013 07:27

On a more serious note - I was baffled by last night's episode. Mind you, I never help myself by falling asleep in the middle.

Trills · 22/07/2013 08:13

:o

I haven't watched last night's one yet but I have now read the books so I do get what you're talking about!

Ladytron · 22/07/2013 10:18

I was waiting for Anne Neville to escape and end up working at an inn in Olde London Town, which is where Richard finds her many months later and THEN they get married, but no...

alemci · 22/07/2013 10:46

Rupert Graves reminded me on Lord Melchett last night with that beard. didn't he want to sleep with Magaret? Does she not want marital relations because she is not able to have another child?

diddl · 22/07/2013 10:51

It was a marriage of convenience, wasn't it?

courgetteDOTcom · 22/07/2013 11:17

If you were forced into a fully functioning marriage at age 12 and been married twice to men you had no say in, would you want a sexual relationship?

Marrying Stanley was a way to get what she wanted politically, and it suited him too, and protect her from future unwanted marriages.

By the way, Stanley was King Edward's uncle, BIL to Cecilly and Richard Neville.

Totally random one, does it annoy anyone else the way Anne goes around shouting "I'm the Kingmaker's daughter!"?

Ellenora5 · 22/07/2013 12:45

I gave up a couple of weeks and then decided last night to give it another go, and what do I see, another baby being born, why do we have to see so many births, by the way I thought Margaret Beaufort looked so much better her hair down, I feel sorry for her, her mother was horrible, and as she said to her as she lay dying, "you sent a girl to do a womans job" made me really feel for her, I don't think I would have forgiven my mother either.

On another note did anyone watch the documentary Phillipa Gregory is doing on the three woman, do you know when part two is on, I can't remember what night I watched it.

Vickibee · 22/07/2013 12:50

it was thursday night @ 9pm, I recall becuase my DS came down and threw up everywhere so I missed the end.

BTW what did thay use for contraception in 1871, I guess the withdrawal method? Otherwise all the King's mistresses would be PG

Vickibee · 22/07/2013 12:50

sorry 1471

TunipTheVegedude · 22/07/2013 12:51

I watched a bit of the doc but they were mostly a bit too positivist and 'she must have felt....' for my liking.
We don't know what went on in people's heads most of the time and that's why fiction and tv drama is so good, because it gives you a licence to speculate.

Ellenora5 · 22/07/2013 12:52

Thanks Vickibee Smile

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