[S1, E5] Queen Elizabeth I

It’s about time we look at a person, and who better to represent ‘events that shaped Britain’ than Good Queen Bess?Gudrun explores how Elizabeth defied her father to honour her mother, why she was better educated than you might think, and the conspiracies that she was a man.She also looks at other strong Tudor women Elizabeth came up against, her battles with the two Queen Marys, and her extreme beauty habits.Timestamps0:56: How she honoured her mother, Anne Boleyn1:34: Elizabeth I was better educated than you may realise2:12: Was Elizabeth really a man?3:10: The two Marys Elizabeth had to beat4:34: The lethal Elizabethan beauty fads