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The Virgin Queen is a 2005 BBC and Power co-production, four-part miniseries based upon the life of Queen Elizabeth I, starring Anne-Marie Duff and Tom Hardy as Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. [1] It was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Serial in 2007.
- Historical Drama
Aug 1, 2007 · The drama explores her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror and her great love affair with Robert Dudley. Some of the important political and historical events during her ...
Sep 6, 2024 · Uncover the real early life of Elizabeth I, England's Virgin Queen. Explore how her tumultuous childhood, marked by her mother's execution and disinheritance, shaped the future of one of England's most influential monarchs.
Jan 31, 2019 · For a queen known for her alleged virginity, Elizabeth I's love life has long been the subject of great speculation. Here, Dr Anna Whitelock, a reader in early modern history at Royal Holloway, University of London, explores what really went on behind the closed doors of the so-called Virgin Queen. Anna Whitelock.
- Elizabeth Nearly Married Thomas Seymour - Fact
- Elizabeth Was A Natural Redhead - Fact
- Elizabeth Was A Murder Suspect - Fact
- Elizabeth Was A Bit Catholic - Fact
- Elizabeth I Was A Man - Myth
- Elizabeth Nearly Married Her Sister's Husband - Fact
- Elizabeth Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays - Myth
- Elizabeth Was A Survivor - Fact
Thomas Seymour, the husband of her father Henry VIII’s final wife, Catherine Parr, and the uncle of her younger half-brother, Edward VI, was executed for attempting to get the young Elizabeth to marry him. While to this day we only have partial accounts of what took place between them, this episode has been much-discussed in both historical and fic...
Portraits of Elizabeth typically depict the queen with flaming red hair and an extremely white complexion. Earlier depictions of Elizabeth suggest that her red hair was natural; her ultra-white face was created through lead-based make-up that may have led to health issues in her later life.
Elizabeth came under suspicion when the wife of her favourite, Robert Dudley, died under mysterious circumstances. This story has become a favourite for writers of mysteries and thrillers to explore in their novels.
Despite ruling as a Protestant monarch, Elizabeth adhered to her sister’s Catholicism during Mary’s reign.
Many misogynists and conspiracy theorists have argued that, due to her extraordinary leadership qualities, noted academic brilliance, and financial acumen, Elizabeth must have been a man. An overwhelming amount of evidence declares this notion to be false and discriminatory.
Mary’s husband, Philip II of Spain, proposed to Elizabeth after Mary’s death. Mary and Philip were cousins, and Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII, had divorced Mary’s mother in part because he became convinced it was wrong for a man to marry his brother’s wife. Philip apparently had less compunction about creating a parallel situation with Elizabeth. ...
Conspiracy theorists have proposed that Elizabeth, a gifted wit and writer herself, might have written some or all of Shakespeare’s plays. This argument often has classist origins – many scholars have been reluctant to ascribe some of the greatest works of literature of all time to the son of a glover from Stratford – and is almost certainly false.
Queen Elizabeth survived smallpox as a young woman, though none of the portraits of her show the scars she probably had from the disease.
Jun 9, 2022 · Known today as the “virgin queen,” Elizabeth famously never married, despite considering an array of suitors—many of them rogue rakes who had much in common with Thomas—over her 45-year reign.
Aug 20, 2023 · Becoming Elizabeth is a tale of Elizabeth’s days before the throne, before she became the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess. It is the story of her precarious life during the reigns of her step-siblings, Edward VI and Mary I, during a period of polarising religious tensions.
