Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester

Dedicated to their lives and relationship.

[captainshadowgirllostfan]

I love this scene. And here, it really does seem like Elizabeth and Leicester are an old couple and Essex is a son of theirs.

[video-et-taceo-deactivated20230]

This is my favorite deleted scene ever. It pains me that it didn’t make the final cut!!!

[marigraphia]

i did those on paint during class (in mid-april) but i liked them askldjn it’s stupid sorry

[imjustasmith]

catch me crying with this one minute video

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

“Elizabeth both in her nature and her fortune was a wonderful person among women, a memorable person among princes.”

— Francis Bacon, In Felicem Memoriam Elizabethae - On the Fortunate Memory of Elizabeth Queen of England

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

“On 17th April [French ambassador, Antoine] Noaille’s reports were ‘Elizabeth having since her imprisonment been very closely confined, is now more free. She has the liberty of going all around the Tower, but without daring to speak to any but her appointed guard. As they cannot find her implicated, it is thought she will not die.“ On the 4th May he reported “She is treated better. The queen, in speaking of her, is said to call her ‘sister’, which she has not done since her imprisonment, and has replaced her picture next to her own in her gallery.””

— The History of the Reigns of Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth, Volume 1 by Sharon Turner, 1835, page 441 (via queenmarytudor)

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Elizabeth I & Robert Dudley

You are my favorite “what if” You are my best “I’ll never know" 

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[theladyelizabeth]

y’all thought I was joking?

[luanna801]

Mike O‘Neill: Bafta and Emmy award winning costume designer who dressed Helen Mirren in Elizabeth I

Screenwriter Sandy Welch remembers the friend and colleague whose scholarly attention to detail and wardrobe genius helped actors bring characters to life

Found out recently that one of my favorite underrated costume designers died this year, so I thought I’d do a quick appreciation post for him and his work. I mainly know him from three miniseries, all of which I think he did amazing work on:

Daniel Deronda (2002):

North and South (2004):

And Elizabeth I (2005):

Gorgeous, aren’t they? R.I.P. to an incredibly skilled costume designer and, from what I’ve read, a lovely man.

[historicwomendaily]

parallels between mary i and elizabeth i

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[theladyelizabeth]

I love this video. It’s rare that we see a video about Elizabeth’s makeup and dress that is portrayed not only accurately, but sympathetically and not as a mode of ridicule or scorn. Especially when you consider the fact that Elizabeth was by far not the only woman in England (indeed, even in Europe - the ceruse she wore on her face originated from Venice after all) who wore this type of makeup. Even when discussing Elizabeth’s skin problems from smallpox and toxic makeup they didn’t employ cheap exaggeration tactics. Overall such a lovely and informative video.

(Bonus points for the mention of Robert Dudley and the setting of Kenilworth!) 

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

Howsoever it be, so long as I live, I shall be queen of England

Elizabeth I

[historicwomendaily]

3000 followers celebration week

favorite ruler in their own right: elizabeth i (julia’s pick)

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Sketch of baby Elizabeth I being read to by her mother Anne Boleyn

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[maximumphilosopheranchor]

“An informant of Mendoza’s reported, ‘She was so grieved that for some days she shut herself in her chamber alone, and refused to speak to anyone until the Treasurer and other Councillors had the doors broken open and entered to see her’. Possibly this was an exaggeration, but certainly she did seclude herself for a while, for on 7 September Walsingham told a correspondent it was impossible to do business with the Queen by ‘reason that she will not suffer anybody to [have] access unto her, being very much grieved with the death of the Lord Steward’. Her emotion showed plainly in a letter she wrote to her ‘very good old man’, the Earl of Shrewsbury, in reply to one of his that had both congratulated her for the defeat of the Spaniards, and offered condolences for her recent bereavement. Having thanked him for his felicitations, the Queen went on brokenly, ‘As for the other matter contained in your said letters, although we do therein accept and acknowledge your careful mind and good will, yet we desire rather to forbear the remembrance thereof as a thing whereof we can admit no comfort, otherwise for submitting our will to God’s inevitable appointment, who, notwithstanding his goodness by the former prosperous news, hath nevertheless been pleased to keep us in exercise by the loss of a personage so dear unto us.’ To the end of her life she treasured the note Leicester had sent her from Rycote, reverently inscribing upon it, ‘HIS LAST LETTER’. In November it was observed that the Queen was, ‘much aged and spent, and very melancholy’, and those who knew her best affirmed that Leicester’s death was to blame.”

— Anne Somerset, Elizabeth I

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― John Greenleaf Whittier

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