Looks like erstwhile Game of Thrones star Michelle Fairley has moved from one dangerous world full of egomaniacs to another, as Starz announced Tuesday that the actress will play Henry Tudor’s mother in The White Princess, a follow-up to its mini-series The White Queen. Fairley has kept busy since she was brutally axed from the Thrones universe (or was she??), but many fans will surely welcome this development as a particularly uncanny return to form. The eight-episode limited-series drama is based on a best-selling novel with the same title by Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl and other historical page-turners, and chronicles the War of the Roses from the perspective of women. And as Tudor’s mother, Margaret Beaufort, Fairley returns to a role she knows well, bringing to life a woman who orchestrates her son’s ascent to power.

Like many Game of Thrones characters, Margaret’s moral disposition could be a tad ambiguous: she was a philanthropist and benefactor for the church, but she was also a murderer. “Margaret knows that getting the throne and keeping it safe for the Tudor line are two different things,” the press release explains, “especially as York rivals continue to plot against them with increasing success.” Just in case anyone forgot that Game of Thrones was at least partially inspired by the gruesomeness of history, there’s your reminder.

Joining alongside Fairley will be Jodie Comer (Kate Parks in Doctor Foster, Chloe in My Mad Fat Diary). Comer will be playing Princess Elizabeth of York, who was married off to Henry to unite the York and Tudor houses. God, the Medieval times sucked. Margaret and Elizabeth’s relationship is about as fraught as one might expect: Elizabeth might have been forced to marry Henry Tudor, but her elevated status still undermines Margaret’s—which, it seems, will force Margaret to do some serious soul-searching in the show as her relationship with her son deteriorates. Let’s just hope the wedding itself doesn’t bring up too many bad memories for Fairley . . .