The White Princess Analysis

I chose to do my audience analysis on Philippa Gregory’s books The White Princess. The book is a historical fiction book based on the lives of King Henry the 7th and Elizabeth of York. The primary audience for this book is for people who are interesting about the history and the people of the British monarchy. The reason that I believe that this is the primary audience for this book is because most people do not want to learn about Elizabeth of York unless they are interested in her and her life. Another reason that I think that this is the primary audience is because this book follows the history and issues that were going on during that time. People that would want to read this book are people that are interested about the royals back then and what happened in their lives and the issue and threats that they were facing at the time. For example, the book talks about how King Henry the 7th had issues with people pretending to be one Elizabeth’s brothers who were killed in the tower. A few young men came forward during that time and pretended that they were one of the brothers
that was saved and rescued before almost being killed in the tower. Another example is that the book also goes over the lineage of not only Elizabeth of York but it also goes over her and all of her children. One of those children being the famous King Henry the 8th with the six wives. Two of them he beheaded.
The secondary audience would be for people who like historical romance books. This book has a lot of romantic twists and turns to it. For example, in the book in talks about Elizabeth’s relationship with Richard the 3rd and it talked about how she dealt with his death and how much she missed him. It also talked about her feeling toward Henry and how she at first was so appalled by him because he killed her love on the battle field. Another example of this would be how Henry fought for Elizabeth and how he loved her and did everything he could to make her fall in love with him. The book goes over him trying to do little things for her. The book also talks about him getting mad at Elizabeth because he felt like she manipulated him with her actions.
The first audience would be for men.
The book would not focus on the love stories or the romance it would focus on something totally different. This book would contain a lot of gruesome information about the battles. It would also talk about the weapons they used and the detail on how they used them. I think that this sounds quite boring to be honest. I think that the book would be really dull, short, and not a lot of detail. The second audience would be for a children. I would be specific to little girls. If this were trying to aim its audience for little girls it would talk more about the pretty dresses at the time and crowns on the princesses. The book would not talk about the battles and the challenges that they faced at the time. I love the idea of this and I think that it is a cute idea. However, I am still a child at heart so throw a crown or a dress on something and I am all over
it.