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Becoming Elizabeth Season Finale – To death we must stoop

The season finale of Becoming Elizabeth sees us fast-forwarding two months from the end of the last episode, where we…

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Just who was the real Queen Elizabeth I?

If you’ve been following my weekly videos on the Starz series “Becoming Elizabeth”, you’ll have realised that I’ve been rather…

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Becoming Elizabeth Episode 7 – To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face

Episode 7 of Becoming Elizabeth, “To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face”, was yet another action packed episode. We…

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Becoming Elizabeth – Who is missing?

Becoming Elizabeth” has been a mixed bag when it comes to historical accuracy, with the timeline being all over the…

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Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 6 – What Cannot be Cured – The fact behind the fiction

In episode 6 of “Becoming Elizabeth”, “What cannot be cured”, we saw Thomas Seymour pay the ultimate price for his…

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Becoming Elizabeth Episode 5 – Necessity compels me to plague you – The real history behind the show

This week’s episode, Necessity compels me to plague you, was jam-packed! Thomas Seymour stalks Elizabeth and manages to wheedle out…

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Becoming Elizabeth Books – Books to help you learn the history behind the series

I hope that the Starz series “Becoming Elizabeth” is making viewers hungry to know more about the real historical people…

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Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 4 – Lighten Our Darkness – Becoming Elizabeth or Becoming Mary?

This week’s episode of Becoming Elizabeth, Lighten our Darkness, had us thinking that Elizabeth might just be pregnant, saw the…

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Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 3 – Either Learn or Be Silent

In this week’s episode of “Becoming Elizabeth”, episode 3 “Either Learn or Be Silent”, things come to a head between…

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Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 2 Part 2 with feedback from Tom Cullen and Anya Reiss

Thank you to all those who commented on my last video with their views on the Elizabeth and Seymour storyline….

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Actor Tom Cullen responds to my anger over Becoming Elizabeth’s Thomas Seymour and Elizabeth Storyline

Trigger alert: This post is on the topic of abuse and grooming. If you’ve watched my video on the second…

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Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 2 – Elizabeth I’s #metoo moment is ruined

If I had a soapbox, I’d be getting on it this week! Honestly, I was so cross about episode 2…

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Becoming Elizabeth – Episode 1 – Keep the Knife Bright – Fictions versus history

In the first of these weekly videos on the Starz series “Becoming Elizabeth”, I discuss Episode 1 “Keep your knife…

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NEW Elizabeth I online event starts with a chat about Becoming Elizabeth this week!

Did you watch the first episode of “becoming Elizabeth”? I did, and I made rather a lot of notes too!…