Just over 24 hours to go until BBC One's big production of #TheWhiteQueen and the excitement mounts.  Can they really do justice to the story of Elizabeth Woodville and Philippa Gregory's excellent telling of her tale?  I hope so, it's such a cracking yarn that it's hard to see how a TV production with lots of money, talent and lush locations thrown at it can go wrong.  Elizabeth looks gorgeous, Edward looks suitably young, handsome and lascivious and how can we not love this version of Jacquetta, the uber ambitious mother of the king?

Some critics have called it history lite...but who wants treaties and charters when we've got a stroppy commoner holding out for a crown, a king so desperate for a woman he risks his throne for her and a woman who makes tiger mums look like kittens?

The White Queen - roll on Sunday night...

And to celebrate the start of a summer of sizzling, saucy history, tomorrow I start my week of looking at the life of Elizabeth Woodville..please join the discussion below...