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

Elizabeth I really enjoyed the Duke of Anjou, and called him her "little frog".

Elizabeth had a pet name for nearly all favourites, and Anjou called himself "Grenouille" in a few of the "love letters" to Elizabeth I.

the appellation "frog" have been bestowed on various foreigners, by the British, since the 14th century. It is only since the 17th that it has been applied soley to the French.




Helen Mirren ... Queen Elizabeth I
Jeremy Irons ... Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Jérémie Covillault ... Duke of Anjou
Patrick Malahide ... Sir Francis Walsingham
Ian McDiarmid ... William Cecil, Lord Burghley


Elizabeth I (2005) (TV)

Directed by
Tom Hooper (who worked with Mirren on "Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness")

Written by
Nigel Williams

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Queen
• Elizabeth
• Helen
• Mirren
• JeremyIrons
• Leicester
• Walsingham
• Elizabethan
• HelenMirren

[BelleandSebby]

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

[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

[musique28]

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

thank's!

[AuxaneD]

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

[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]

@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.

[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

[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