Seriously?? If this is Henry VII in real life and I'm in the White Princess' shoes, I would just have to kill myself. 
 At first I gave him hope. I'm trying to understand him for the fact that he just came from the war and being exiled for years and all but at the half of the book I've thrown away all the false hopes that I kept on me. He is really a psycho son of a bitch. constantly fearful to the point of hurting Elizabeth just for bearing the name of York. By God! Just move on will you?? 
 Well, he is really cursed then because even though he went through all of this, his line still ended with the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth. And I'm really happy that I am rooting for Mary Queen of Scots until the end even after discovering this. And also, virgin Elizabeth was temperamental which she got from her father, Henry VIII, which he technically also got from his father. 
 I may be biased in speaking all of this since I really don't know the exact thing that happened at that time and this is told in Elizabeth's point of view but based in this novel I really hated him. Gosh! I have to stop talking about him because he is causing me a headache. 
 Moving on to this book's heroine, I really LOVE Elizabeth of York and her mother Elizabeth Woodville. I don't care if others will say that the princess is whining to her mother and whatnot but they are just lovable characters for me. This may be my first book for the series since I just watched the White Queen on my laptop but still I'm all for the Yorks. I would have even jumped and shouted "A York!" if I was there with the characters (this would cause me to be hanged though. Ha!) 
 I am really sympathetic towards Lizzie's life after the Bosworth battle. She may have experienced love from childhood and with Richard III but after that blah! Her mother and her children is the only thread that is keeping her in court. I think Henry's spark of love (or not) at that time maybe some disease that just infected him and was cured after he got back from that stupid-and-not-really-a-battle. 
 This also tells me on how to be queen in the 1400's. It is a really sad job especially if your husband does not truly love you and there are so many rebellions in the kingdom. 
 Elizabeth on Henry VII when he's acting childish 
 I really don't know now if it was really true that he died in a grief-stricken state to his wife's early death. Or maybe it was just because he was guilty of not being a proper husband to her. gosh, I really believed that he truly loved her even though it was a marriage without passion but after reading this, I am now very unsure. 
 Hell. I think I have to research more. :)