History YMMV / TheWhiteQueen

** George is a ass. Weak, corrupt and disloyal. He's also 100% correct in that he should be the heir, since Elizabeth and Edward's marriage is invalid. And he dies because he knows this.

* ToyShip: Anne and Richard, of course. Some fan fiction authors like to explore how they first met when they were kids and why a mutual crush had formed between them.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: How the miniseries is marketed in the United States, although the BBC did create a trailer entitled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWjG5njnXVY There's a New Edward in Town]]" which advertised UsefulNotes/EdwardIV's sexiness. The Starz telecast is notably HotterAndSexier with more sex scenes and more nudity. Although it lacks strong support from critics, the show does have a fan base that likes it on its own merits. Ironically, fans seemed to have reacted with a shrug at the character of Edward, who was thought to have been extremely handsome and sexy in RealLife, while a decade after the series ran, fans still taken an interest in the show's version of [[PrettyBoy Richard]].

** The sequel series of ''The White Princess'' averts this a little; Elizabeth Woodville says that she has no idea as to whether she actually ''does'' have magic or whether it was all bollocks and she and her mother got ''very'' fucking lucky with their timing!

* FridgeHorror: In Episode 2, Elizabeth's kid sister Catherine is married to a very sulky Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. Because both parties are just small children, Henry's anger at his kid wife is quite funny and cute. It becomes a lot less so when you realise that historically, Henry Stafford harboured a lifelong resentment about the marriage, and as soon as Edward IV died, he immediately joined Richard's camp against the Woodvilles. He was even one of the suspects in the murder of the Princes in the Tower.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: How the miniseries is marketed in the United States, although the BBC did create a trailer entitled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWjG5njnXVY There's a New Edward in Town]]" which advertised UsefulNotes/EdwardIV's sexiness. The Starz telecast is notably HotterAndSexier with more sex scenes and more nudity. Although it lacks strong support from critics, the show does have a fan base that likes it on its own merits. Ironically, fans seemed to have reacted with a shrug at the character of Edward, who was thought to have been extremely handsome and sexy in RealLife, while a decade after the series ran, fans still taken an interest in the show's version of [[PrettyBoy Richard]]. .

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: How the miniseries is marketed in the United States, although the BBC did create a trailer entitled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWjG5njnXVY There's a New Edward in Town]]" which advertised UsefulNotes/EdwardIV's sexiness. The Starz telecast is notably HotterAndSexier with more sex scenes and more nudity. Although it lacks strong support from critics, the show does have a fan base that likes it on its own merits. Ironically, fans seemed to have reacted with a shrug at the character of Edward, who was thought to have been extremely handsome and sexy in real life, while a decade after the series ran, fans still taken an interest in the show's version of [[PrettyBoy Richard]]

* StrawmanHasAPoint: The series wants to present the characters who accuse Elizabeth and Jacquetta of witchcraft as irrational paranoiacs who are nuts to believe that such a thing exists, and at the same time, also depicts the Queen and her mother as actual witches, with very real supernatural powers. George and Isabel seem to be portrayed as being irrational when they accuse the Queen of using magic to summon the storm that killed their son, except that in the show she did exactly that! So even though the producers clearly want us to have no sympathy for George, and a great deal for Elizabeth, who is after all [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the main protagonist]], the fact is that George and the other characters who label her as a witch are completely correct in at least most of their accusations against Elizabeth (with even the false ones more excusable because of this).

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Richard of Gloucester is a glorified extra in the first four episodes and a secondary character in Episode 5, but when he does finally come to the forefront, he's a scene-stealer. Most critics and fans have praised Creator/AneurinBarnard's memorable performance as one of the highlights of this miniseries, including those who find the show's quality to be uneven.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: How the miniseries is marketed in the United States, although the BBC did create a trailer entitled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWjG5njnXVY There's a New Edward in Town]]" which advertised Edward IV's sexiness. The Starz telecast is notably HotterAndSexier with more sex scenes and more nudity. Although it lacks strong support from critics, the show does have a fan base that likes it on its own merits.

* {{Expy}}: The arc of Neville sisters is quite similar to the arc of Boleyn sisters in The Tudors series ''Literature/TheOtherBoleynGirl''.

* TheWoobie: Anne and Isabel.

* EstrogenBrigade: [[{{Hunk}} Max Irons]], [[PrettyBoy Aneurin Barnard]], David Oakes and Ben Lamb are all extremely gorgeous in period costumes ([[MrFanservice and without them!]]).