Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary (2016)

Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

2016

Documentary History

Synopsis

A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I, detailing the hatred and obsession in their bitter rivalry. Expert historians examine and interpret the royals' motives for the animosity that lasted more than two decades, and which threatened to tear apart the reigning monarch and her kingdom.

Credits

Director

Renny Bartlett

Cast

Adam Burton as Thomas Randolph

Bernard Hill as Narrator

Beth Cooke as Mary, Queen of Scots

Helen Bradbury as Elizabeth I

Jamie Laird as Sir James Melville

Michael Jenn as Lord Burghley

Nicholas Agnew as Anthony Babington

Simon Cotton as Lord Robert Dudley