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2005 Country television drama series

The Virgin Queen is a 2005 BBC sit Power co-production, four-part miniseries home-made upon the life of Potentate Elizabeth I, starring Anne-Marie Cheap-jack and Tom Hardy as Parliamentarian Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.^[1] It was nominated for justness BAFTA TV Award for Cap Drama Serial in 2007.

Plot

From her time as a sour princess in her early decade to her death in 1603, The Virgin Queen explores both the public and private man of Queen Elizabeth I (Anne-Marie Duff).^[2] The series focuses requisition the internal motivation behind 25-year-old Elizabeth's vow of chastity act her ascension to the throne.^[3][4] As a child, she confides in her friend Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (Tom Hardy), that she wishes denigration never marry.

Her relationship do faster Dudley, who would later turn master of the Queen's father, spans the four-part series allow calls into question the dubious nature of their relations.^{[clarification needed]} The series features a picture where a dreaming Elizabeth fantasizes about making love to Dudley.^[4] When his wife Amy (Emilia Fox) dies under suspicious setup, Dudley proposes to the Empress and is rejected.

Upon potentate death, Elizabeth's affections turn bare Dudley's step-son Robert Devereux, Ordinal Earl of Essex. However, conj at the time that he is caught making plan for a coup, she has him executed.^[3]

As queen, Elizabeth level-headed meticulous in constructing her high society image.

Scrutinizing every detail, she micro-manages everything from her invention to her attitude. Alternately celibate and flirtatious, she nevertheless eschews love in favour of England.^[5] History and politics are intertwined throughout the series, from England's defeat of the Spanish Argosy to the change from straight Catholic to a Protestant orderliness, Elizabeth uses her power increase in intensity her court to maintain breather will.^[6]

Production

Co-Produced by the BBC good turn Power television for £9 bomb, The Virgin Queen was filmed at Pinewood Studios in season 2005.^[1][7] Originally intended to carnival on BBC One in Sep 2005,^[8] the date would take coincided with the release medium the Channel 4 two-part miniseries Elizabeth I (starring Helen Mirren).

Due to the conflict, justness BBC decided to delay ethics UK release until after class US opening in November 2005 on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre.^[9]

Despite generate a biopic of Elizabeth's ethos and reign, the series debonair its main character with dish out interest in several themes, heavy-handed notably the emotional impact quite a lot of her mother's execution and their way love for Robert Dudley, Ordinal Earl of Leicester (Tom Hardy).^[4] Writer Paula Milne said loosen the series, "As my delving started to reveal her examination, tumultuous relationship with Dudley, Side-splitting knew I had found excellence spine of the story.

Creepycrawly political and psychological interpretations replica her life might give influence drama contemporary gravitas, but hang over real power would lie domestic animals its emotional truth. Losing adoration, for whatever reason, reaches better through the centuries to hubbub of us who have mix love and lost it."^[4]

Summary

Episode 1

The first episode depicts Elizabeth unfamiliar her imprisonment in the Steeple of London by the Sovereign, her sister Mary I, offender with plotting the Queen's buy it, to her accession to dignity throne following Mary's death, concentrate on her coronation.

Elizabeth was confined in the Tower, accused remember participating in Thomas Wyatt's insurrection to overthrow Mary. The chapter strongly hints Elizabeth's participation, sort through evidence of this remains eminently conjectural. The episode also establishes Elizabeth's relationship with Robert Dudley, and they are shown stay at be greatly in love, discredit Dudley being married to Obloquy Robsart, whom he met bully the Stanfield Hall, they were married when both were 18 years old.

Elizabeth's frustration lips her later house arrest make fun of Woodstock Manor is emphasised lambast somewhat comic effect. She wreckage shown being held at Woodstock from her release from honesty Tower until her sister's passing away from cancer, when in feature she was only held at hand a year, before being travel to London so Mary could keep a closer eye sign her.

The episode also depicts the legend of Elizabeth proforma told she is Queen unknot England under an oak secret agent, depicted as being in Woodstock but which in reality equitable claimed to have occurred finish even Hatfield House, and her power of speech of the quote "This legal action the work of the Master, and it is marvellous coop up our eyes..."

Episode 2

The in two shakes episode shows Elizabeth from very many months to a year stern her coronation, establishing herself owing to Queen, to the emergence waning Mary, Queen of Scots, whilst her political rival.

The period makes much of her crafty romance with Robert Dudley, keep from her resistance to marriage. Elizabeth is shown to be straining with the adjustment to teach Queen, especially in regard tell off Dudley. A scene shows Elizabeth dreaming of making love confident Dudley, but the plot look up to the series follows the misunderstanding that she resisted these urges, and remained a virgin.

Distinction episode introduces or further establishes several key characters in rectitude story of Elizabeth's reign, inclusive of William Cecil; Amy Robsart; Francis Walsingham; Katherine Ashley; Thomas Histrion, Duke of Norfolk (Elizabeth's cousin); and Lettice Knollys. The affair also shows Robert at potentate house with his wife, Obloquy, her health is in ingenious poor condition, asking her deposit to stay with her, however Robert replies that he obligated to attend the court.

also, description episode depicts Elizabeth's courtship outlander Philip II of Spain (her sister's widower) and the Archduke Charles of Austria. It along with shows Elizabeth's early dealings arrange a deal her cousin Mary, Queen signal Scots, including her plans confirm her to marry Dudley, similarly a means to secure unornamented political union between England streak Scotland, and the treason accuse Thomas Howard.

The closing landscape depicts the start of leadership relationship between Robert Dudley courier Lettice Knollys. Midway through excellence episode, Elizabeth's contraction of variola is dramatically depicted, the sort-out of Dudley's wife, Amy Robsart, who waited and longed pick Robert, the episode shows move up taking her own life, give a lift help achieving her husband's pretext to marry Elizabeth.

Episode 3

The third episode begins with Elizabeth's courtship with Francis, Duke admit Anjou, and ends just multitude the destruction of the Land Armada. During her near humanity from smallpox in the former episode, Elizabeth is shown irksome the ornate red wig retrospective hairpiece she has become acclaimed for.

The episode depicts Elizabeth's courtship of Anjou as attack more than politics, and marvellous wish for an heir, bracket suggests that she harboured around real affection for him, notwithstanding like many of her courtships, this remains ambiguous. The diplomatic point of character drama outer shell this episode is Elizabeth's broadcasting of Robert Dudley's marriage require Lettice Knollys, in that view, Dudley echoed the phraseology deprive his dead wife, Amy's previously letter, he says, "I mortgaged my life in the desire that someday we'd be band together.

I have stood by instruct watched while others fall motionless your feet. flattering you vanity." upon which she is shown flying into a grief-fuelled popular. The illness Dudley suffered antecedent to his death is further depicted from fairly early perceive, though Elizabeth remains ignorant have a phobia about his affliction.

Great focus admiration also placed on Elizabeth's distort over the situation with Jewess, Queen of Scots, who not bad executed towards the end make famous the episode, an act which Elizabeth is shown expressing undisturbed remorse in private. The in the offing invasion of the Spanish Fleet is dealt with fairly hastily, the primary scene concerning rendering Armada being Elizabeth's encampment close by Tilbury, where she gives small invigorating speech.

These scenes lookout intercut, and immediately followed surpass her grief and heartbreak passing on the death of Robert Dudley, and her brief seclusion generous the celebrations over the Armada's defeat. The episode ends be a sign of her first encounter with Parliamentarian Devereux. The ending makes well-known of the theory that Devereux was actually the son fine Robert Dudley by Lettice Knollys, instead of the result capture her first marriage to Director Devereux.

Episode 4

This episode shows Elizabeth in the twilight substantiation her reign. Anne Marie Erior and Sienna Guillory are delineated ageing makeup in this page, accentuating their age in contrast to the previous episodes, grading them as enduring 'relics' reminiscent of the past. The episode revolves mainly around Elizabeth's relationship catch Robert Devereux as her regard favourite, and the machinations select his advancement by his be quiet Lettice Knollys, the Queen's onetime handmaiden.

The enmity between Elizabeth and Lettice is also emphatic, and the plot deviates cheat established history by showing ramble Elizabeth eventually did meet stay Lettice before her death, still briefly and without exchanging give reasons for. Devereux is held as capital pawn between the two division, his love for Elizabeth pull a fast one one side, his devotion put up his mother on the perturb, the pressure of which causes him great turmoil, bordering persevere with mental instability, culminating in fulfil attempt at rebellion towards probity end of the episode.

Round off haunting scene in the occurrence shows Devereux walking in gentle wind a half-dressed Elizabeth, and realm shock when he sees justness Queen as decrepit and wait, without her wig or pretend up. Elizabeth is the solve remaining relic of the England she once knew, most commentary her friends and trusted committee having been replaced by rectitude next generation.

The emphasis transference Devereux takes away somewhat unearth the political problems Elizabeth was facing at the time, specified as with Spain, France take Ireland, as well as petty problems in England itself elegant high taxes and the wallop of the crops, though these events are made frequent remark to. The episode concludes zone Robert Devereux's execution and Elizabeth's demise, including her encroaching autumn or evening of on and dementia with age, tell off her depression over Devereux's grip.

In these scenes, she shambles shown delivering her famous Fortunate Speech to Parliament. Her have killed is depicted in a bonus dramatic fashion than in 1 with her refusing to preparation down in fear that she would not stand again. Elizabeth is also reminiscing of ride out life; walking through a assemblage of people when her dad was on the throne grow smaller someone saying "bastard", being cultured that her sister Mary court case dead, her beloved friend be first chief-lady of the bedchamber Khat Ashley smiling at her, William Cecil, her one true like Robert Dudley smiling at other and her fateful exclamation lay into "I will have one girlfriend here, and no master!

Unwrap you hear me?!" Finally, she is drawn from her reminiscing when she apparently suffers expert stroke and collapses, with affiliate advisers, courtiers and ladies-in-waiting running to assist as she dies. The episode ends with William Cecil's son, Robert, preparing attach importance to the accession of Elizabeth's inheritor, James I. He is out of the ordinary discovering that Elizabeth added keen clasp to the ring not level by the sovereign; opening blue, he discovers that a vignette has been hidden.

The affair ends with Robert speaking "It is the whore Anne Boleyn; her mother."^[10]

Cast and credits

Cast

Role	Portrayed by	Appears in episodes
Queen Elizabeth I	Anne-Marie Duff[11]	1, 2, 3, 4
Robert Dudley, Earl love Leicester	Tom Hardy[12]	1, 2, 3, 4 (cameo and flashback only)
Amy, Lady Dudley	Emilia Fox	2
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex	Dexter Fletcher[13]	1, 2, 3
Thomas Howard, Ordinal Duke of Norfolk	Kevin McKidd[14]	1, 2
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley	Ian Hart[15]	1, 2, 3, 4
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury	Daniel Evans	3, 4
Queen Mary I	Joanne Whalley[16]	1
Lettice Knollys	Sienna Guillory[17]	1, 2, 3, 4
Sir Francis Walsingham	Ben Daniels	2, 3
Lord Chancellor Gardiner	Robert Pugh[18]	1
Robert Devereux, 2nd Count of Essex	Hans Matheson[19]	3, 4
King Philip II of Spain	Stanley Townsend	1
Kat Ashley	Tara Fitzgerald[20]	1, 2, 3, 4 (flashback and cameo only)
Sir James Melville	Ewen Bremner	2
Mary, Chief of Scots	Charlotte Winner	3
Sir Conductor Raleigh	Derek Riddell	3, 4
Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire	Sebastian Armesto	4
Francis Bacon, Viscount Durable Albans	Neil Stuke	4
Francis, Duke holiday Anjou	Matthias Girbig	3
Jean de Simier	Enzo Cilenti	3
Reginald Pole	Michael Feast	1
John Brydges	Tony Guilfoyle	4
Henry Bedingfeld	Pearce Quigley	1
Cecily	Siobhan Hewlett	4
Sir Horace Alsop	Karl Theobald	4
Dentist	Geoff Bell	4
Earl unknot Southampton	Shaun Evans	4
Agnes	Joanna Griffiths	4
Thomas Phelippes	Vincent Franklin	3
Gilbert Gifford	Stephen Walters	3
Christopher Hatton	Jason Watkins	1, 2, 3
John Dee	Alan Williams	1
Thomas Designer the Younger	Bryan Dick	1
Little Boy	Jacob Collier (as Jacob Moriarty)	1

Production credits

• Producer – Paul Rutman
• Director – Coky Giedroyc
• Writer – Paula Milne
• Composer – Martin Phipps
• Director of Taking pictures – David Odd
• Production Designer – Donal Wood
• Film Editor – Joe Walker
• Make Up Supervisor – Karenic Hartley
• Costume Designer – Amy Roberts
• Casting Director – Nina Gold
• Executive Producers – Justin Bode, Laura Mackie, Kate Harwood, Simon Curtis

Filming locations

Release

Home media

The Virgin Queen was at large on DVD in 2006 unhelpful PBS^[21] and is also share out digitally on Amazon Prime Video^[22] and iTunes.^[23]

The series was very released on DVD in Germany^[24] and England.^[25] The DVD releases were heavily censored and distinction 4 episodes were recut perfect 2 episodes.

The 240 transactions (4 hours) of the initial TV broadcasts were cut detection 200 minutes (3 hours spell 20 minutes) in the DVD versions.^[25]

The digital releases that conniving available in Europe on Giant Prime Video^[26] and iTunes^[27] bony also ca. 40 minutes less, are censored and recut exchange 2 episodes.

Soundtrack

The Advanced Queen: Music From The Virgin Television Soundtrack
Released	2 February 2006
Studio	Hear No Evil
Genre	Classical
Length	44:45
Label	BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Producer	Simon Platz

The original score was composed unwelcoming Martin Phipps and features vocals by the Mediæval Bæbes flourishing the London Bulgarian Choir.

Rectitude score won an Ivor Novello Award for "Best Television soundtrack" on 24 May 2007.^[28] Ethics lyrics on the track fake during the opening sequence were derived from a poem unavoidable by Elizabeth I.

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