A detailed look at the life of Elizabeth I, the 'Virgin Queen'. Exploring the close relationships with her intimate attendants and the attitudes to, and treatment of, women at the time, this episode about Elizabeth focuses on her affairs, her diet and her power.
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Thank you for such a brilliant documentary! Today´s episode, however, mentioned Elizabeth´s fear of childbirth showing a picture and verbal reference to her stepmother Katherine Parr, Henry´s last wife and the one that survived him. I don´t think that this reference makes any sense: it should have been Jane Seymour, because she was the one who had died after having given birth to Elizabeth´s younger brother Edward. Elizabeth very likely remembered this horrible untimey death that might have installed the fear of giving birth in her.