Best-selling novelist Philippa Gregory — whose book, “The White Queen” premieres as a Starz miniseries Aug. 4 — is not impressed with the royal baby, Prince George.
“I know this is awful news. It’s terrible. It’s like blasphemy,” Gregory told reporters at the annual TV Critics meeting in LA. “I couldn’t care less. Except, of course because I want to get home I’m very glad they had a baby.
“ I’m very glad they had a good birth. I’m very glad it’s all right,” she said. “And I’m extremely glad for its sake that it’s a boy, because it’s going to have a terrible life. And if it had been a girl, it would have been a nightmare.”
Reporters erupted into nervous laughter at Gregory’s remarks.
She’s written 25 historical novels about the backstabbing ways of the British monarchy — putting the royal birth into historical perspective.
“In terms of the importance of having a boy, yes, the rule was in England in the medieval period that a woman could not inherit the throne,” she said. “Which is why the first queen on the throne married a Tudor.”