Starz’s The White Queen is showing off a full-length trailer, even though the series won’t arrive until August 10, 2013. The network’s previously released short teasers of the period drama, but this new trailer shows more of the women involved in the life of King Edward IV (played by Max Irons).
Based on Philippa Gregory’s novels, the period drama also features James Frain, Rebecca Ferguson, Janet McTeer, Amanda Hale, Faye Marsay, and Aneurin Bernard.
The Plot:
A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different yet equally relentless women – Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
The year is 1464 before the Tudor dynasty ruled the country, and war has been ravaging throughout England over who is the rightful King. It is a bitter dispute between two sides of the same family, The House of York and The House of Lancaster.
The House of York’s young and handsome Edward IV is crowned King of England with the help of the master manipulator, Lord Warwick “The Kingmaker.” But when Edward falls in love with a beautiful Lancastrian commoner, Elizabeth Woodville, Warwick’s plan to control the throne comes crashing down.
A violent, high-stakes struggle ensues between Elizabeth, her most fierce adversary, Lancastrian Margaret Beaufort, and Anne Neville, the pawn in her father’s power game – each woman vying for the crown.
