Becoming Elizabeth: First Look at the New Series!

We're less than a month away from the release of "Becoming Elizabeth"! Let's look at the trailer (watch it here: https://www.starz.com/gb/en/series/becoming-elizabeth/62829 or here: https://youtu.be/0eX6uiDkpeM) and talk about what we might expect from this series based on the known historical events...


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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]


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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):


Stills from the trailer for “Becoming Elizabeth” (STARZ) – watch it here: https://www.starz.com/gb/en/series/becoming-elizabeth/62829


Elizabeth as a young woman, attributed to William Scrots (c.1546). Held by the Royal Collection.


Portrait of Edward VI of England from the circle of William Scrots (16th century). Held in an unknown private collection.


“King Edward VI” and the Pope by an unknown artist (c.1575). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.


Portrait of Mary Tudor, later Queen Mary I by Master John (1544). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.


Portrait of Lady Jane Grey by an unknown artist (c.1590-1600). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.


Portrait of Katherine Parr by an unknown artist (late 16th century). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.


Portrait of Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley by Nicolas Denisot (from 1547 until 1549). Held by the National Maritime Museum.


Portrait of Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (cr 1537), (later in 1547 created 1st Duke of Somerset & Lord Protector 1547–49); by unknown artist (16th century). Held in the collection of Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Wiltshire.


Portrait of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway by Hans Knieper (1581). Held by The Museum of National History, Denmark.


Image of Edward VI's "devise for the succession” (1552 / 1553), written in his own hand. (Inner Temple, Petyt MS 538, vol. 47 fo. 317.)


Portrait of Mary I by Antonis Mor (1554). Held by the Museo del Prado.


Portrait of Philip II in Armour by Titian (1550s). Held by the Museo del Prado.


The ‘Tide Letter’, Noon, 17 March 1554 (SP 11/4/2 f.3- 3v). Image screenshot from https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/elizabeth-monarchy/the-tide-letter/


Portrait of King Felipe II of Spain and Queen Mary I of England by Hans Eworth (1558). Held by Woburn Abbey.


Texts consulted, were:


Various relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.


ADAMS, SIMON, and DAVID SCOTT GEHRING. “Elizabeth I’s Former Tutor Reports on the Parliament of 1559: Johannes Spithovius to the Chancellor of Denmark, 27 February 1559.” The English Historical Review, vol. 128, no. 530, 2013, pp. 35–54. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23362288.


https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/elizabeth-monarchy/the-tide-letter/




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