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Because the Tudors want to ensure Lizzie is “fertile,” Henry won’t marry her until she can prove she’s pregnant. It means that everything in “The White Princess” is backwards, for a modern and more romantic audience.

There is a refreshing kind of honesty in hate, anyway. Whether or not either is fully conscious of it, their marriage is setting the table for a long-awaited and much-desired era of peace in England - and despite diametrically opposed families, they have quite a bit in common. But history tells us that Henry and his queen grew to love each other, and inklings of that are obvious in even their most contentious meetings. Not every arranged marriage works out well, obviously. It’s a love story, but one that feels rather unfamiliar to a Western audience: The couple hardly knows each other, and sets about the hard work of having children and reconciling their in-laws without much enjoying each other’s company. But it is at its best when it portrays the complex negotiation and manipulation between Henry and Lizzie. “The White Princess” is not as clear or polished as say, “The Crown,” when it comes to creating a portrait of the monarchy. That does not mean anyone involved is going to like it very much. But England demands a reconciliation between the Lancasters and the Yorks, and this marriage seems to be the best way to do it. In this case, the love affair just serves to cement her hatred for her betrothed, Henry (Jacob Collins-Levy), who in turn resents having to marry a woman who openly despises him. Richard III was Elizabeth of York’s uncle, who may well have killed one of her young brothers - and for the daughter of a king to offer up her virginity to any man she wasn’t married to is itself quite extraordinary.

In the first episode, we’re shown a flashback to a night of passion she shared with him, intermingled with his death in battle - the death that signaled the end of the wars, more or less.

The main thing to know is that Richard III, the “bloody dog” of Shakespeare’s imaginings, is in fact beloved to our lead Elizabeth ( Jodie Comer).