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Philippa Gregory Philippa Gregory Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl which was made into a TV drama, and a major film. Now, six novels later, she is looking at the family that preceded the Tudors: the magnificent Plantaganets, a family of complex rivalries, loves, and hatreds. She lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire where she keeps horses, hens and ducks. Visitors to this site, Philippa Gregory.com become addicted to the updates of historical research and the progress of ducklings. Her other great interest is the charity that she founded nearly twenty years ago: Gardens for The Gambia. She has raised funds and paid for almost 200 in the primary schools of this very dry and poor African country, and thousands of school children have been able to learn market gardening in the school gardens watered by the wells. The charity also provides wells for womens’ collective gardens and for The Gambia’s only agricultural college at Njawara. A past student of Sussex University, and a PhD and Alumna of the Year 2009 of Edinburgh University, her love for history and commitment to historical accuracy are the hallmarks of her writing. She also reviews for the Washington Post, the LA Times, and for UK newspapers, and is a regular broadcaster on television, radio, and webcasts from this website, philippagregory.com. Philippa is a patron of The UK Chagos Support Association, which supports the Chagos islanders in their struggle against British injustice. The people of Chagos were displaced by the British government when they cleared the archipelago in the Indian Ocean of its inhabitants in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for an American airbase. Gregory often speaks about the Chagossians' plight and lobbies the government to take action. (Dymocks) Official Website https://www.philippagregory.com/ List of Books https://bit.ly/3ylwzOr Book Series https://bit.ly/3w8ERqI Author Bio and Interview https://bit.ly/3onraSm Reading Order The Order of Darkness Series The Fairmile Series Changeling Tidelands Stormbringers Dark Tides (released November 2020) Fools' Gold The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Dark Tracks The Lady of the Rivers The White Queen The Tradescant Series The Red Queen Earthly Joys The Kingmaker's Daughter Virgin Earth The White Princess The Wideacre Trilogy The Constant Princess Wideacre The King's Curse The Favoured Child Three Sisters, Three Queens Meridon The Other Boleyn Girl The Boleyn Inheritance The Princess Rules The Taming of the Queen The Princess Rules The Queen's Fool It's a Prince Thing The Virgin's Lover The Last Tudor The Other Queen .
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