#they are TRYING to make elizabeth the best woman to have ever lived and yada yada

[navree]

the problem with the white queen is that our main characters consistently falls into this trap a lot of historical domain characters do where they immediately start disliking and distrusting someone who’s done them no wrong and hasn’t given enough reason for that dislike or mistrust, because the people writing the story know that they’ll eventually become rivals/adversaries/enemies

it was a huge problem in ‘memoirs of cleopatra’ where cleopatra goes from liking octavian to hating him the second caesar dies even tho he’s done nothing to engender that hatred and they share similar values for the first year afterwards, all because margaret georges knows that eventually they’ll be enemies and go to war that will end in cleopatra’s death, and it’s a MASSIVE problem with the white queen where elizabeth, our literal protagonist, is an ass to everyone for no reason just because philippa gregory and emma frost know that eventually they’ll be on opposing sides, which means that every action taken against her by warwick or george or richard feels justified because she’s acting out against them for no reason and being a total bitch who pits them against her with her own attitude