The Virgin Queen

Synopsis

The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex.

Streaming on

• PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel↗
• Thirteen↗
• WETA+↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Anne-Marie Duff
  as Queen Elizabeth I
• 
  Tom Hardy
  as Robert Dudley
• 
  Ian Hart
  as William Cecil - Lord Burghley
• 
  Dexter Fletcher
  as Sir Thomas Radcliffe - Earl of Sussex
• 
  Joanne Whalley
  as Queen Mary
• 
  Ben Daniels
  as Francis Walsingham

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