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Continuity: When Leicester says to Elizabeth 'Kiss me, Bess' his hand is placed on the back of her neck. When the camera changes angle his hand has moved to her cheek. Continuity: When Elizabeth visits Mary Queen of Scots, Mary is wearing a large crucifix and chain. A few moments later, Mary's crucifix has vanished from her chain. When Elizabeth leaves, the long shot shows the crucifix has returned. DATE: Elizabeth uses a fork when having dinner with Leicester before the battle against Spain but the fork was not introduced to England until the early 17th century when James I was on the throne. DATE: While waiting on the beach to see if the Spanish Armada was about to invade England in 1588, Robert Dudley, first Earl of Leicester, pulled out his telescope to check the flag on a ship that was sailing up the river. The Telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey in 1608. Fact errors: The poem Essex is supposed to have written to Elizabeth on the day of his execution was written by Chidiock (Charles) Tichbourne (1558-1586) just before his execution for his part in the Babington plot, a conspiracy to assassinate Elizabeth. Fact errors: During the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots; as Elizabeth's envoy is speaking how best to inform the Queen of the beheading; they are outside, in a courtyard. Contemporary accounts show that Mary's real execution took place indoors at Fotheringhay Castle. |
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Queen Elizabeth I: If you can't read my silence, you're nothing. Queen Elizabeth I: What in God's name do we have in common with the Dutch? Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Our religion, ma'am! Queen Elizabeth I: The Dutch have no religion, they have cheese. Queen Elizabeth I: I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King! And a King of England, too! Queen Elizabeth I: A man can be a good Catholic and a good Englishman. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Not at the same time, Ma'am. William Cecil, Lord Burghley: The bloody and deceitful man shall not live out half his days. [last lines] Queen Elizabeth I: Fetch me a priest, girl. I'm minded to die. [talking about Sir Francis Bacon] Queen Elizabeth I: Bacon, people who compliment me on my breasts, even in Latin, run the risk of being thought impertinent. [to Essex] We understand he's fond of the company of pretty youths. No wonder he's the Member for *Middlesex*! Queen Elizabeth I: I lack the assurance of youth. I question everything. Sir Francis Walsingham: I think the French make better acquaintances than friends. [Elizabeth is visiting Mary Stuart secretly] Mary Queen of Scots: You were not announced. Queen Elizabeth I: I am not here. Queen Elizabeth I: Princes never cheat at cards. They simply have the rules altered to suit their needs. William Cecil, Lord Burghley: For 19 years, Your Majesty, this council has implored you to secure your succession by marriage. You have refused all suitors, but now... Queen Elizabeth I: I do not say I will not marry, Lord Burghley. The question before us is whom. Queen Elizabeth I: Oh Robin, I'm set about by enemies and I know not who to trust. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Well not France, I beg you. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: [to Elizabeth] What do you imagine Monsieur will do with me after he has your hand? Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: [faking a French accent] Shall I be Catholic? [stronger French accent] Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Shall we all be Catholic? Queen Elizabeth I: [to Leicester] The only thing that will kiss in this affair are lawyers pens and lawyers papers. Queen Elizabeth I: Great things hang on a kiss, Robin, when princes are involved... [Elizabeth is going to visit Mary Stuart at Fotheringay Castle] Queen Elizabeth I: I understand she's grown very fat. Well, she's had nothing to do but eat and sleep. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: And plot, Your Majesty. Queen Elizabeth I: Come ladies, we are going to watch the Earl of Essex at his favourite pastime, which is trying to kill people. [Signing Mary's death-warrant] Queen Elizabeth I: I want to hear no more of this... but someone is to give me an account of it when it is done. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: Her favour changes with her moods, for she is a woman. But if you love her, love her constancy, for it is there. Executioner: Pardon me. Mary Queen of Scots: I hope that you shall make an end of all my troubles. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: This marriage will not go. Her heart will be broken. [to Burleigh] Not yours. [to Walsingham] Or his, if he had one! Queen Elizabeth I: I will die at a time of my own choosing, and not before. Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex: How can I read when you look at me like that? Queen Elizabeth I: How do I look at you? Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex: As if you are deciding whether to eat me. Queen Elizabeth I: The hardest thing to govern is the heart. |
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