Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?” That was the question posed to a dying Queen Mary in 1998’s Elizabeth, director Shekhar Kapur’s grim and dingy film now viewed in retrospect as the origin ...

Queen Elizabeth I is known for many things: defeating the Spanish Armada, restoring Protestantism, setting the stage for Britain's "Golden Age," and, of course, her unusual decision not to marry.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir Christopher Hatton, Amyas Paulet, Elizabeth Throckmorton, Robert Reston, King Philip II of Spain, Mary, Queen of Scots, ...