If you're in the UK or have access to the UK's BBC2 then make sure that you catch this programme on BBC2 today (1st February 2016) at 9pm. It's about Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Here's the blurb from the BBC:
"Of all the dangers Elizabeth I had to survive - the Spanish Armada, a Catholic continent plotting against her incessantly, restless nobles uneasy at serving a queen who refused to marry - none was so personally intense as her rivalry with another woman - her cousin and fellow queen, Mary, Queen of Scots. This was her longest, most gruelling battle - lasting over two decades, it threatened to tear apart both Elizabeth and her kingdom. In the end, it would force her to make the hardest decision of her life.
The two queens stared across the ultimate divides of their time: Protestant and Catholic, Tudor and Stuart, English and Scottish. Their fascination with one another grew into the greatest queenly face-off in our entire history. And yet, in 26 years of mutual obsession, they never actually met. Their confrontation was carried out through letters - a war of words so heartfelt and revealing that the two queens' passions can still be felt.
For the first time on television, this chronicle of love turned to hatred, of trust betrayed by plot and bloodshed, is dramatised purely from the original words of the two queens and their courtiers. Expert historians examine, interpret and argue over the monarchs' motives for their 'duel to the death' - for in the end only one queen could survive such emotional combat."
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wdzd1 for more information and a clip.
Will this be shown in America? We miss so many of these wonderful shows.
It’s possible someone will post it on You Tube at some point Karen. I don’t know what television services are like in the States, but can you get the i player services there? If you can you might be able to watch it online.
It all depends on whether a US channel buys it. Someone might put it on YouTube though.