Helen Mirren's Elizabeth I: Anjou courts Elizabeth, pt 2/2

[musique28]

Gorgeous, i would like to know who is the composer of this music (minute 8: 32),

thank's!

[PrincessLadyNinja]

If Elizabeth got all mad at Dudley when she found out he got married, then why didn't she just marry him herself!!! and that guy TOTALLY spilled the beans about the marriage on purpose to get Bess upset at Robert and get him booted from court.

[Chocolateluvr1987]

Is it weird for me to think that Jeremy Irons is sexy even though he's something like 60 and I'm 23?

[JudgeJulieLit]

Transcendentally genius production, sets, costuming, script (that includes poems), and above all acting all around.

[Gilraenxd]

could someone tell me ( if someone knows) What is name of the song that plays when she says the poem? Thanks!

[StitchesAndLollipops]

Such a sad and beautiful poem <3

[JudgeJulieLit]

@StitchesAndLollipops Elizabeth's poem is entitled "On Monsieur's Departure." Its line "I burn and freeze" deploys a standard hyperbolic conceit from the Italian poet Petrarch.

[gryffindor6474]

"The English do not like public torture?!"

"It's usually their preferred way of passing an afternoon!"

[greenlady13]

"We forbid you access to our presence."

Next time I get in a fight with someone, I'm using that one! :D

[Nephphantom]

what a beautiful poem, love that line afterward "Well England the Queen is all yours now." I think that she liked being Queen but hated it at times since she couldn't marry who she wanted and she was constantly watching her back since so many wanted her dead

[WingsTM]

"We forbid you access to our presence" is probably one of my favorite movie quotes of all time. Such a great scene!

Also the actor playing the Duke of Anjou is really freaking hot here.

[AuxaneD]

@WingsTM I prefer Jérémie Covillault over Jeremy Irons (good looks wise) so i agree.

[revoltinglibrarian]

holy crap, those eyes... marry him NOW!

[BelleandSebby]

Attention - Jeremy Irons is a sexy, sexy man and I want on. That is all. Commence youtube-ing.

[BellaGoth12]

I agree that Jeremy Irons is sex on a stick. Who doesn't want to be his Soon-Yi?

[stitchgrl777]

@BelleandSebby I completely, utterly, undoubtedly agree with you.

[kheldara]

Irons' expressions are CLASSIC; his Dudley really does crack me up.

[meroyn]

that poem was written by Elizabeth herself, with it we can imagine how depressed she had become by 1603, all her family and friends had died, all her close advisors had died, the love of her life had died some 20 years before and she was the last of her line, with only a foreigner to hand the crown to. she suffered terribly in her last days, absecces in the stomach stopped her eating for weeks, she stood for 15 hours for fear she could not rise again...She was Englands bess

[booklvr44]

I really like the character of Anjou in this mini-series. The actor who plays him his really hot. His looks almost make me forget that Anjou was from a family of crazies, and that Anjou was also the loser of the family.

[oldiXD]

thank you very much for uploading it!!!

[waterrain2005]

who's different Cate Blanchett or Hellen Millen?

[OldiexOldie1134]

Hell yeah. I'll take the Earl of Leicester any day.

[daboomcrewrocks12]

good luck with that!!

[jencalo]

The Duke of Anjou sucks! Shoot, I'd be willing to bear the Earl of Leicester's child!Once again Jeremy Irons is SMEXY!

[jencalo]

Jeremy Irons is my knight in shining armor!shoot, if Elizabeth won't marry him I will!

[SassieSaskia]

Thank God she didn`t marry that catholic Frenchmen whose

royal relatives were busy plotting Elizabeth`s demise.

I am sure he had a hand in the massacre of French Protestants in 1572.

[Oualtaire]

Jérémie Covillault rocks.

[Marlean]

Hellen Mirren is true brilliance and Jeremy Irons will ALWAYS be one of the knights in my heart.

[albusflavoredbean]

I utterly agree! I love Jeremy Irons- he is so fantastic! That snide little look he gives when he says "Perhaps they would rather have a french hand." Ha. But he's right- Elizabeth uses the poor earl. A pity.

[Hannig]

i would not entirely agree that she used him - certainly no more than he used her. She was more a desperately lonely woman scarred by her witness of her Father's attitudes to women and marraige and fenced in by her councilors. I have to agree, begrudginly, with the old idea that women rulers are unfortunately plagued by emotions far more than men. But i would say she mearly sought to keep close to her a man she loved and whom she felt loved her for her person and not her position.

[albusflavoredbean]

Yeah, I do agree with you; but still: she did not love him and still lead him on a bit... but Elizabeth rocks anyway!

Yay!

[Hannig]

actually i'd probably say he was the love of her life. Just a match that would never have been allowed to happen. Lets not forget they grew up together. I think he used her far more than she ever used him. I think she dallied with him because she couldn't face letting him go. Until he was older, he stuck around to further himself.

[albusflavoredbean]

I dunno- I do think that the Earl loved Elizabeth, and he never married or had kids with anyone for a LONG time until he (depending on which account you read) gave up on Elizabeth or made a stupid mistake. I mean, it's not a bad thing for him that his best friend's the queen, but I think he did love her.

[albusflavoredbean]

But she was the one who gave up, who knew that they couldn't work out- but she kept him by her side until she found some one else; carrying on with a bunch of affairs, unlike Esssex. I think they were both being selfish, but I still think thing she used him more then he used her.

[Hannig]

who else did she ever "find"? Lets not forget that this only shows towards the end of her reign.when younger, he slept with a lady in waiting when she was still in love with him and was later arrested for treason -she didn't have him killed, unlike the other plotters, a sure sign that she was in love with.He hid relationships and wives from her. She may have encouraged a relationship with him that was impossible, but he sought only to further himself, rather than pursuing true feelings for her.

[Hannig]

In fact the only other man she ever showed so much genuine interest in was the earl of essex - which was after leicster was dead.

[daboomcrewrocks12]

finally someoone agrees with me that the queen is a user and a whore!!

[crackofdoom98]

you're completely and utterly wrong; better yourself and read proper history books next time you think of saying such a thing.

[crackofdoom98]

haha wow, your maturity and eloquence is stunning. :P

[daboomcrewrocks12]

personaly i have nothing against ajou i just wish the queen could've married him!!

[Gemma100489]

Hold your tongue!!! Remember that you speak of someone who is perhaps the greatest monarch in all of history!!!

[wizzboy76]

Well told

[wizzboy76]

How dare you. Read more and you may see the truth.

[TotallyJeannius]

Helen Mirren's scenes with Jeremy Irons concerning Leicester's marriage to Lady Essex are pure brilliance. This is the stuff Emmys are made of. My God, her changes in mood are mind-blowing! The part when she screams, "Get out of my sight!" still sends chills down my spine.