The Virgin Queen

Name: The Virgin Queen
Genre: Drama
Released: 2006-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 6.6

About The Virgin Queen

The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex.

The Virgin Queen is a drama series that ran on BBC One and PBS. The series is filed under royal family, british history, palace intrigue, and 16th century.

Its one season of 4 episodes aired between January 2006 and February 2006.

Anne-Marie Duff stars as Queen Elizabeth I, Tom Hardy as Robert Dudley - Earl of Leicester, Sienna Guillory as Lettice Knollys, and Ian Hart as William Cecil - Lord Burghley.

In the United States it streams on PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel, Thirteen, and WETA+. Elizabeth I, The Crown, and Elizabeth R make useful companions to The Virgin Queen, all filed under miniseries.