Kate Middleton won't be England's first "commoner" queen: that would be Elizabeth Woodville, wife of the Plantagenet King Edward IV and one of the more unpopular queens in earlier histories, thanks to her enemies slandering her as a witch. In The White Queen, Philippa Gregory tells a semifictionalized version of Elizabeth's life. The details of the Wars of the Roses are rooted firmly in reality; the descriptions of witchcraft probably aren't.