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Elizabeth R: With Glenda Jackson, Ronald Hines, Robert Hardy, Stephen Murray. When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisers know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.
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Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial of six 90-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I of England. It was first broadcast on BBC2 from February to March 1971, through the ABC in Australia and broadcast in the United States on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre.
- 17 February –, 24 March 1971
- BBC2
- 6 (list of episodes)
Elizabeth R. Glenda Jackson gives a regal performance as Queen Elizabeth I, from a terrified princess surrounded by treachery, to assured monarch and liverish old lady. This is an award-winning series detailing the life of one of England's greatest monarchs who reigned from 1558-1603.
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The fragile succession heralds dangerous times for the young Princess Elizabeth. Having narrowly avoided implication in Sir Thomas Seymour's attempted abduction of her sickly half-brother, the boy King Edward VI, she becomes an unintentional figurehead for a Protestant rebellion led by Thomas Wyatt the Younger when her half-sister Queen Mary I ...
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Synopsis. This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
Home. Episodes. All. Available now (6) Next on (0) Sweet England's Pride. 6/6 Elizabeth instructs the Earl of Essex to deal with Irish discontent. The Enterprise of England. 5/6 With the threat...
