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* HeroesWantRedheads: Slightly subverted, since it's not clear whether the men courting Elizabeth are in it for her or for the power. Except Leicester - it's clear he wants her for ''her'' and has even back when she was a bastard. And she knows it, much to both their misfortunes.
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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Elizabeth's fate after watching her loved ones die or betray her.
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** Robert Dudley gets this several times - whatever he does, she forgives him all his sins and reveals on his death bed that she ''knows'' Essex is actually his, but "Lechery doesn't interest [her]" - she even says to Essex "Sir, your ''father'' needs you" and neither Essex nor Robert deny it. Her willingness to forgive Robert gets to a point where, on his death bed, Robert tells Essex that Elizabeth needs "looking after" and Elizabeth says nothing.
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** Robert Dudley gets this several times - whatever he does, she forgives him all his sins and reveals on his death bed that she ''knows'' Essex is actually his, but "Lechery doesn't interest [her]" [her]"; when Robert briefly goes off topic on his death bed, lamenting their love, Elizabeth brings him back on track by asking that he spoke about "[his] son" - meaning Essex, whom she even says to Essex later tells "Sir, your ''father'' needs you" and neither you". Neither Essex nor Robert deny it.the paternity. Her willingness to forgive Robert gets to a point where, on his death bed, Robert tells Essex that Elizabeth needs "looking after" and Elizabeth says nothing.
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''Elizabeth I'' is a 2005 British miniseries about the last few decades of the reign of UsefulNotes/ElizabethI (Creator/HelenMirren). The series deals with her personal and political life; Part 1 focuses on the final years of her relationship with the Earl of Leicester (Creator/JeremyIrons), and Part 2 focuses on her subsequent relationship with the Earl of Essex (Creator/HughDancy).
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''Elizabeth I'' is a 2005 British miniseries about the last few decades of the reign of UsefulNotes/ElizabethI (Creator/HelenMirren). The Directed by Creator/TomHooper, the series deals with her personal and political life; Part 1 focuses on the final years of her relationship with the Earl of Leicester (Creator/JeremyIrons), and Part 2 focuses on her subsequent relationship with the Earl of Essex (Creator/HughDancy).
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** Robert Dudley gets this several times - whatever he does, she forgives him all his sins and reveals on his death bed that she ''knows'' Essex is actually his, but "Lechery doesn't interest [her]". Her willingness to forgive Robert gets to a point where, on his death bed, Robert tells Essex that Elizabeth needs "looking after" and Elizabeth says nothing.
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** Robert Dudley gets this several times - whatever he does, she forgives him all his sins and reveals on his death bed that she ''knows'' Essex is actually his, but "Lechery doesn't interest [her]".[her]" - she even says to Essex "Sir, your ''father'' needs you" and neither Essex nor Robert deny it. Her willingness to forgive Robert gets to a point where, on his death bed, Robert tells Essex that Elizabeth needs "looking after" and Elizabeth says nothing.
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** Robert Dudley gets this several times - whatever he does, she forgives him all his sins and reveals on his death bed that she ''knows'' Essex is actually his, but "Lechery doesn't interest [her]". Her willingness to forgive Robert gets to a point where, on his death bed, Robert tells Essex that Elizabeth needs "looking after" and Elizabeth says nothing.
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''Elizabeth I'' is a 2005 British miniseries about the last few decades of the reign of UsefulNotes/ElizabethI. The series deals with her personal and political life; Part 1 focuses on the final years of her relationship with the Earl of Leicester, and Part 2 focuses on her subsequent relationship with the Earl of Essex.
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''Elizabeth I'' is a 2005 British miniseries about the last few decades of the reign of UsefulNotes/ElizabethI. UsefulNotes/ElizabethI (Creator/HelenMirren). The series deals with her personal and political life; Part 1 focuses on the final years of her relationship with the Earl of Leicester, Leicester (Creator/JeremyIrons), and Part 2 focuses on her subsequent relationship with the Earl of Essex.Essex (Creator/HughDancy).
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* DramaQueen: Essex. When Elizabeth is outraged by the miscarriage of justice with Lopez, Essex's reaction is to have himself driven through the streets in a mock funeral procession.
* EasilyForgiven: Essex fails to achieve the actual military goal of capturing Lisbon after he disobeys her direct command not to go, but she waves aside his offense when he returns. She also forgives him for trumping up an improper case against Dr. Lopez, but that incident and Frances Walsingham's pregnancy open her eyes more.
* EasilyForgiven: Essex fails to achieve the actual military goal of capturing Lisbon after he disobeys her direct command not to go, but she waves aside his offense when he returns. She also forgives him for trumping up an improper case against Dr. Lopez, but that incident and Frances Walsingham's pregnancy open her eyes more.
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* TooDumbToLive: Essex ''draws his sword'' on Elizabeth at a council meeting because she laughs at his suggestion. He escapes with his head that day, but he doesn't take a lesson from it.
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* BatmanGambit: Elizabeth knew the Earl of Essex was going to betray her, so she relaxed the guard on him and did not prosecute him. The Earl duly goes on a mad scheme to ride to court and take her hostage, for which she is well prepared. The Earl is captured, while the Queen's earlier leniancy made it clear to everyone she was the wronged party, despite his claims to the contrary.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: the miniseries has Elizabeth ride in secret to her cousin Mary I's home-prison to see her face-to-face before deciding her fate. In RealLife Elizabeth and Mary never met: Elizabeth's councilors feared such a meeting because Elizabeth could sympathize having lived through the same trials and hardships in her youth. If the miniseries gets anything right, it's that the Scottish Mary actually spoke with a French accent[[note]]from Mary's childhood married to the French Dauphin Francis II[[/note]] and that by the time of her execution Mary was overweight and in ill health.
* BatmanGambit: Elizabeth knew the Earl of Essex was going to betray her, so she relaxed the guard on him and did not prosecute him. The Earl duly goes on a mad scheme to ride to court and take her hostage, for which she is well prepared. The Earl is captured, while the Queen's earlierleniancy leniency made it clear to everyone she was the wronged party, despite his claims to the contrary.
* BatmanGambit: Elizabeth knew the Earl of Essex was going to betray her, so she relaxed the guard on him and did not prosecute him. The Earl duly goes on a mad scheme to ride to court and take her hostage, for which she is well prepared. The Earl is captured, while the Queen's earlier
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* BittersweetEnding: Elizabeth dies alone, but her reign was long and successful enough that England - eventually the British Empire - will survive.
* CelibateHero: Elizabeth is one of the most famous in history. Played with in this miniseries as Elizabeth is shown considering a political marriage to the Protestant French Duke of Anjou, with her on-again off-again relationship with Leicester, and her later flirtation with Essex.
* CelibateHero: Elizabeth is one of the most famous in history. Played with in this miniseries as Elizabeth is shown considering a political marriage to the Protestant French Duke of Anjou, with her on-again off-again relationship with Leicester, and her later flirtation with Essex.
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* LoveRuinsTheRealm: Why she can not marry the duke of Anjou.
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* LoveRuinsTheRealm: Why she can not marry the duke of Anjou. Or Leicester.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The defeat of the Spanish Armada.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The defeat of the Spanish Armada.
* RousingSpeech: Elizabeth's at Tilbury.
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* SuccessionCrisis: Her councillors are afraid this will happen after Elizabeth dies.
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* SuccessionCrisis: Her councillors are afraid this will happen after Elizabeth dies.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Slightly subverted, since it's not clear whether the men courting Elizabeth are in it for her or for the power.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Slightly subverted, since it's not clear whether the men courting Elizabeth are in it for her or for the power. Except Leicester - it's clear he wants her for ''her'' and has even back when she was a bastard. And she knows it, much to both their misfortunes.
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->''"One thing I found hard to get scripted was the size of her ego."''
-->-- '''Creator/HelenMirren'''
''Elizabeth I'' is a 2005 British miniseries about the last few decades of the reign of UsefulNotes/ElizabethI. The series deals with her personal and political life; Part 1 focuses on the final years of her relationship with the Earl of Leicester, and Part 2 focuses on her subsequent relationship with the Earl of Essex.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* BatmanGambit: Elizabeth knew the Earl of Essex was going to betray her, so she relaxed the guard on him and did not prosecute him. The Earl duly goes on a mad scheme to ride to court and take her hostage, for which she is well prepared. The Earl is captured, while the Queen's earlier leniancy made it clear to everyone she was the wronged party, despite his claims to the contrary.
* BetterAsFriends: She tries this with Leicester at some point, but it's never very convincing; come on, if she COULD have made him King, slept with him and had heirs by him, then she would have done so.
* CelibateHero: Elizabeth is one of the most famous in history.
%%* TheCharmer: The Earl of Leicester.
%%* ErmineCapeEffect
* AFatherToHisMen: Elizabeth insists on going to Tilbury to show her support for the soldiers.
* FriendshipMoment: Elizabeth has several little scenes of this with Lord Burghley.
%%* GoOutWithASmile: Leicester.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Averted. Quite a lot is shown of gory executions.
* TheHeretic: Elizabeth and most of the people at the English court. One of the main reasons Spain tried to invade.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Slightly subverted, since it's not clear whether the men courting Elizabeth are in it for her or for the power.
* KnightInShiningArmor: The Earl of Essex clearly aspired to be this, but forgot that behaving honorably includes obedience to a sovereign; see OffWithHisHead.
* LoveRuinsTheRealm: Why she can not marry the duke of Anjou.
* OffWithHisHead: Subverted. Elizabeth is very reluctant to have Mary killed. This is later played to full by the execution of, you guessed it, [[spoiler: The Earl of Essex - when he is executed, millions of people cheer happily.]]
%%* OlderSidekick: Lord Burghley.
* PimpedOutDress: Elizabeth of course wears several.
* PrettyInMink: In one scene, the queen wears a black dress trimmed with white ermine, and an ermine muff.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: In between romantic interludes with different men, Elizabeth also rules England effectively.
* SecretRelationship: Leicester and Lady Essex, later The Earl of Essex and Frances Walsingham - Elizabeth, rightfully enough, is ''realllllllllllllllllllllly'' not happy about this.
%%* SourSupporter: Sir Francis Walsingham.
%%* StandardRoyalCourt
* SuccessionCrisis: Her councillors are afraid this will happen after Elizabeth dies.
%%* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask
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->''"One thing I found hard to get scripted was the size of her ego."''
-->-- '''Creator/HelenMirren'''
''Elizabeth I'' is a 2005 British miniseries about the last few decades of the reign of UsefulNotes/ElizabethI. The series deals with her personal and political life; Part 1 focuses on the final years of her relationship with the Earl of Leicester, and Part 2 focuses on her subsequent relationship with the Earl of Essex.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* BatmanGambit: Elizabeth knew the Earl of Essex was going to betray her, so she relaxed the guard on him and did not prosecute him. The Earl duly goes on a mad scheme to ride to court and take her hostage, for which she is well prepared. The Earl is captured, while the Queen's earlier leniancy made it clear to everyone she was the wronged party, despite his claims to the contrary.
* BetterAsFriends: She tries this with Leicester at some point, but it's never very convincing; come on, if she COULD have made him King, slept with him and had heirs by him, then she would have done so.
* CelibateHero: Elizabeth is one of the most famous in history.
%%* TheCharmer: The Earl of Leicester.
%%* ErmineCapeEffect
* AFatherToHisMen: Elizabeth insists on going to Tilbury to show her support for the soldiers.
* FriendshipMoment: Elizabeth has several little scenes of this with Lord Burghley.
%%* GoOutWithASmile: Leicester.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Averted. Quite a lot is shown of gory executions.
* TheHeretic: Elizabeth and most of the people at the English court. One of the main reasons Spain tried to invade.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Slightly subverted, since it's not clear whether the men courting Elizabeth are in it for her or for the power.
* KnightInShiningArmor: The Earl of Essex clearly aspired to be this, but forgot that behaving honorably includes obedience to a sovereign; see OffWithHisHead.
* LoveRuinsTheRealm: Why she can not marry the duke of Anjou.
* OffWithHisHead: Subverted. Elizabeth is very reluctant to have Mary killed. This is later played to full by the execution of, you guessed it, [[spoiler: The Earl of Essex - when he is executed, millions of people cheer happily.]]
%%* OlderSidekick: Lord Burghley.
* PimpedOutDress: Elizabeth of course wears several.
* PrettyInMink: In one scene, the queen wears a black dress trimmed with white ermine, and an ermine muff.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: In between romantic interludes with different men, Elizabeth also rules England effectively.
* SecretRelationship: Leicester and Lady Essex, later The Earl of Essex and Frances Walsingham - Elizabeth, rightfully enough, is ''realllllllllllllllllllllly'' not happy about this.
%%* SourSupporter: Sir Francis Walsingham.
%%* StandardRoyalCourt
* SuccessionCrisis: Her councillors are afraid this will happen after Elizabeth dies.
%%* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask
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