Ember August asked Philippa Gregory:

Greetings Ms Gregory, I've read many of your books, all of your Cousin's War series, and I look forward to reading your newest book, The Taming of the Queen. I'm wondering if you believe that Perkin Warbeck was truly the young Prince Richard? Have you ever considered writing his story?

Philippa Gregory Prince Richard's story and the likelihood of his survival has been wonderfully analysed by historians, especially David Baldwin, and Ann Wroe has written a beautiful account part fiction-part speculation-part fact which persuaded me of his survival and return to England in an unsuccessful attempt to claim his crown, and showed me also how wonderful a hybrid book like this could be. I do think that the young man that Henry VII named as Perkin was probably Prince Richard – at any rate he clearly was not called Perkin Warbeck, as there was nobody of that name living at Tournai, and his 'confession' seems as if it were dictated by his captors. (He gets his own mother's name wrong!) How he got to be accepted by all the crowned heads in Europe and to live at Henry's court as an honoured guest is part of the mystery of his life.

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