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On this day in 1533, Elizabeth Tudor was born at Greenwich Palace. She went on to rule England for 45 years as Queen Elizabeth I.
Portrait attributed to William Scrots, c.1546
Little did she know then that she would one day be played by Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, Cate Blanchett, Anne Marie Duff and Miranda Richardson, or that she would get to snog Joseph Fiennes, Tom Hardy and Lord Flashheart :D
If you want to see why I love her, check out her Tilbury Speech, given on the eve of an attempted Spanish invasion in 1588 (and performed pretty accurately here by Anne Marie Duff in The Virgin Queen on the BBC, even if the 'crowd' seems to consist of about 20 people)
Little did she know then that she would one day be played by Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, Cate Blanchett, Anne Marie Duff and Miranda Richardson, or that she would get to snog Joseph Fiennes, Tom Hardy and Lord Flashheart :D
If you want to see why I love her, check out her Tilbury Speech, given on the eve of an attempted Spanish invasion in 1588 (and performed pretty accurately here by Anne Marie Duff in The Virgin Queen on the BBC, even if the 'crowd' seems to consist of about 20 people)
