Category: Elizabeth movies and series
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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!…
Becoming Elizabeth is coming soon!
The series “Becoming Elizabeth” is set to premiere on STARZ on 12th June, so not long now! STARZ says of…
Elizabeth I in A Discovery of Witches
As I write this, Season 2 of A Discovery of Witches is airing in the UK on Sky and it’s…
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Campaigns Against Anonymous Film
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, hometown of William Shakespeare, has today launched a one day protest coinciding with the…
Why Didn’t Elizabeth I Marry?
In the final scene of Shekhar Kapur’s “Elizabeth”, starring Cate Blanchett, we see Kat Ashley cutting Elizabeth’s hair off and…
Elizabeth I in the Movies
This article has been inspired by Mark Glancy’s article “Three Films about Queen Elizabeth I” in the August 2010 edition…
Elizabeth I Portrayals
Elizabeth I has been portrayed by so many actresses:- Ellen Compton Sarah Bernhardt Flora Robson Bette Davis Jean Simmons Glenda…
