Declared illegitimate aged 3. Tried for treason aged 21. Crowned Queen aged 25.
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Alison Owen, Liza Chasin, Debra Hayward
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Screenplay: Michael Hirst
Director of Photography: Remi Adefarasin
Elizabeth I
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Sir Francis Walsingham
Duke of Norfolk
The Pope
Sir William Cecil
Mary of Guise
Monsieur de Foix
Elizabeth (1998) Trailer