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the two faces of Queen Elizabeth the
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first this one that sexy superstar she
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was almost Madonna the pop star and this
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one the royal from hell
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she broke one lady's finger she stabbed
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another in the back of his house she
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ruled England for 44 years on a heavy
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mixture of fame power and repressed sex
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they probably did everything except what
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would have made her pregnant she was
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famously married to England
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so speculation ran wild Elizabeth was
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never able to marry because of course
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she was really a man welcome to the
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secret life of Elizabeth the first the
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Virgin Queen
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Elizabeth the first queen of England and
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if you go by the portrait Queen of the
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Universe part woman part goddess this
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tall redheaded charismatic figure full
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of energy clever as they come
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she wasn't conventionally beautiful you
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know she had this very long nose pointed
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chin piercing eyes during her reign from
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1558 to 1603 William Shakespeare picks
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up his pen for the first time Sir
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Francis Drake goes round the world and
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the Spanish Armada ends up at the bottom
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of the ocean
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their English triumphs and Elizabeth
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takes credit for them all choose better
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than any modern politician at creating
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this world of illusion
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Elizabeth absolutely needed and expected
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to be the center of attention of course
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by the end of her reign she'd had 40
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years of solid flattery so why wouldn't
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she her entourage would stun a rockstar
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1000 of England's high and mighty in the
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royal court and flunkies to blow trumpet
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fanfares
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whenever she enters the room making a
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Hollywood red carpet look like the
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opening of a supermarket everything
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about her says I'm Queen and you're not
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home base is Whitehall in London
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party central her street name is
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gloriana she has more bling than Snoop
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Dogg six hundred and twenty eight pieces
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of very expensive jewelry like the dress
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well there are 2,000 more where that one
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came from they would have been decorated
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with pearls these rumors with diamonds
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they would have weighed a ton
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they were priceless
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in the 16th century you wore your wealth
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on your back and Elizabeth was a
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fashionista Elizabeth must have had the
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greatest walking closet in history I
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think like most superstars Her Majesty
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is used to getting her own way she
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spoiled willful and demanding Elizabeth
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was very imperious she would order
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certain things Hugh is like one of those
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celebrities who will soar to say oh I
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can only have blue Smarties in my
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changing room no surprise considering
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her upbringing in one of history's most
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dysfunctional families the terrible
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Tudors dad King Henry the eighth has mom
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and Burrell in the headed disowns young
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Elizabeth and declares her illegitimate
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she's packed off to live with one of
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Henry's exes Catherine Parr and her new
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hubby Thomas Seymour he's tall handsome
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athletic and a total slimeball he comes
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to her room in his nightshirt and gropes
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her beneath the sheets he's 40
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she's 13 if she's not dressed yet look
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if they're a sort of slap on the bottom
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if she's in bed he'll pull open the
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curtains and make as if he's going to
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get into the bed with her
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Thomas was told to stop it and said Oh
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what nonsense you know it's just a
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little fun and games no wonder she has
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issues
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it's amazing that Elizabeth not only
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managed to function but to take all
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those insecurities and I think really
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make them part of her armor by the time
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she's a teenager
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it expects her to be setting fire to
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barns and grain silos but she dutifully
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buckles down to her studies she was
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great intellect as she could speak and
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read a number of languages Latin Greek
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French Spanish and she could
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sings she could dance she was very
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talented she loves card games especially
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a 16th century version of Hearts and is
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a skilled and agressive hunter she could
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hunt for hours if not days on end
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she exhausted all the male companions
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who went with her when the throne passes
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to a little births Catholic half-sister
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aka Bloody Mary for her nasty habit of
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killing Protestants
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she sends Elizabeth to the Tower of
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London no sisterly love there she was
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suspected of being a traitor
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Elizabeth stews in the tower for 56 days
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waiting for the raffle at the door and
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the butt clenching trip to the chopping
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block she was living under the threat
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the daily threat of execution while she
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was in the tower well Mary lets her go
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and conveniently dies at the age of 25
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Elizabeth becomes Queen and utters the
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five words that will define her reign I
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am married to England that was the
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running theme throughout her speeches
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all the way from her coronation through
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to her later years and it was brilliant
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and really that was a fantastic piece of
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spin she's a powerful woman in a man's
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world and knows exactly how to play the
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boys I am but a weak and feeble woman
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she famously said but I think she
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pretended to regret that she'd been born
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a woman in order to win over all those
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men at court as she did it brilliantly
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January 1559 Elizabeth is crowned queen
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at the age of 25 and declares herself
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married to the realm trouble is she's
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supposed to marry an actual guy and get
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on with the job of producing an heir
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Elizabeth said that when she thought of
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marriage it really was as if fear was
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clutching at her heart she has droves of
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suitors Elizabeth got her needs met
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through having this these attentions
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from men and yet not having to give up
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any of her power or her independence to
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them she would accept foreign princes
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and the envoy's and she would negotiate
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with them and send her portrait off to
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all these foreign princes and so what
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she was doing was just to flirt with him
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just to keep the possibility alive she
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delighted in sending out conflicting
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messages I would move to marry this
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person and when I marry that person the
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spanish ambassador threw his hands up in
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the air and said this woman has got us
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all wondering about wondering what she's
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doing she deflected the pressure to Mary
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by blaming it on the lack of candidates
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for every candidate is a reason to say
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no Archduke Charles of Austria to
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Francois Duke of Anjou to French his
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brother only small pox scars gross and
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he's a bisexual and the transvestite
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king philippe ii of spain too old too
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creepy and then a boy toy perfect
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Robert Dudley was the classic hero of
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every romance novel
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tall dark and handsome Hollywood would
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have loved him a bit risque a bit of a
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rogue dashing sporting sexy as hell she
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keeps him close
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making him her master of the horse the
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nearest equivalent today would be a
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royal bodyguard and we have heard
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stories about royal ladies and their
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bodyguards people noted how much
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affection she had for him she even
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entertained him in her chamber so there
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was a real sense that maybe she would
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want to marry him but Dudley has a
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problem her name is Amy Rob's art his
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wife Oxford September the 8th 1560 Amy
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is home alone her servants returned to
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find her at the bottom of staircase with
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her neck broken dead as a doornail it
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looks very fishing Elizabeth immediately
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orders an inquest thirdly posh is his
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alibi he was with the Queen that day but
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it's not airtight instantly half the
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courts of Europe began asking whether it
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wasn't Robert Dudley who'd had her
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killed
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in the end the coroner whitewashes the
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whole affair declaring Amy's death
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accidental Dudley's off the hook but any
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faint hope of marrying Elizabeth is now
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out the window I think that then she
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realized she didn't truly want to marry
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not anybody not even Robert Dudley
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so no marriage no babies and if you're
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truly a virgin queen
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no sex at all but there's always the
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medieval tradition of courtly love
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expressions of esteem between couples
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that stop one panting breath short of
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actually doing it when we watch Dudley
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gazing adoringly into Elizabeth's eyes
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when we see him kneeling at her feet
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it's fine it's perfectly acceptable
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because it's in the great tradition of
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courtly love and courtly love was all
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about the knight worshiping this lady
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this woman he was never going to get and
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it was a game that everybody at court
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was allowed to play letters are fine
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even love letters
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but this was different this was a
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scandal mopping his brow with the
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Queen's handkerchief that's not courtly
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love that's boyfriend stuff then it
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horrified the court now it would be on
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the front pages of every tabloid in the
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days of courtly love it was actually
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said that the lover may enjoy the naked
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embraces of his mistress in a bed and
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still their love may be counted pure if
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the final solace is denied to them so
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was the Virgin Queen really a virgin
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it's what everyone wants to know and
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raises another age-old question the one
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that Bill Clinton had so much trouble
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with I did not have sexual relations for
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that woman what constitutes sex they
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probably did everything except what
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would have made her pregnant
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I don't think Elizabeth ever went so far
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as actually sleep with Robert Dudley it
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was just too risky and Elizabeth was not
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a risk taker 1568 Elizabeth turns 35 and
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like all celebs spends hours on end
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polishing the look
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and Elizabeth was a complete master of
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this she created an image that made her
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like the Lady Gaga of her day it was
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startling it was new and it first of all
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started with a very white face but
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Elizabeth's images of the greatest
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importance to her so it's important that
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she uses the very best of cosmetics the
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Elizabeth herself would have used white
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LED basalt for our models we're using a
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modern cosmetic because of course white
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LED is toxic and as time goes on it can
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make your cheeks get slightly spongy
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Elizabeth like to wear white because it
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made her look virginal and made to look
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pure and it made her stand out in this
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she had this constant look that she was
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perfectly in control of and for a nice
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rosy glow smear on some dead bugs the
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coach Neal is a small beetle you grind
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this up times are up to get this very
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very clear cerise color elizabeth is
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going for something that's much more
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dramatic if she's being seen at a
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distance you need a certain amount of
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contrast to make sure that people
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recognize you think that's actually that
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lovely doesn't she look healthy she is
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betraying herself
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I almost has an artwork Chin's are
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looking like a statue she ends up
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looking like one of her portraits
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Elizabeth in person controls her look
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just as much and that includes a very
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high forehead this is something they did
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that was very strange they took the
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hairline back about an inch which must
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have been terribly painful to do because
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to have a high forehead was considered
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very attractive Elizabeth has gone down
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in history as one of the most painted
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monarchs we all know what she looked
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like and we all think she was this
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fantastic Queen and why do we think that
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because Elizabeth wanted us to think
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that she controlled her image every step
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of the way it was like a form of 16th
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century airbrushing and if we look at
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this one here this portrait was painted
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at the greatest moment of Elizabeth's
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life she's not just Queen of England
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she's queen of the world she's just
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defeated our model and she has her hand
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resting on the globe to just symbolize
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how much she now dominates the world but
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she always wanted to go one better in
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her portraits and here
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she's not just dominating the world
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she's dominating nature and Elizabeth is
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at the center controlling everything you
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wouldn't think that elizabeth is
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actually in her sixties here she looks
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just as young as she ever did and yet it
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was painted right at the end of her life
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her gown is covered in tiny ears and
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eyes just to show that Elizabeth hears
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and sees everything and this one is all
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about symbolism is called the Pelican
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portrait because the Pelican is at the
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center of Elizabeth breast in the form
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of a jewel and the pelican so legend has
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it picked its own flesh to feed to its
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young just as Elizabeth sacrificed her
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happiness for the people of England
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Elizabeth can control her image but
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can't control the rumor mill
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herma she was a teen mom does he scare
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Thomas Seymour had his way with her and
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then tried to conceal the evidence we
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have to assume that Elizabeth didn't
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have any children because otherwise they
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would have become the focus of attention
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people don't stay silent entirely on
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matters of such great importance rumor
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Elizabeth and Dudley had a secret love
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child who washed up on a beach in Spain
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he was a young well-educated Englishman
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who identified himself as Arthur Dudley
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bastard son of Queen Elizabeth there are
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people who talk of the Queen looking as
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if she'd given birth
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there are times the Queen disappear some
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public view there is still a possibility
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that she could have concealed a
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pregnancy I believe that Arthur Dudley
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claim was correct wait a minute when you
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start looking at the details they don't
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quite stack up in fact there were many
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other children claiming to be the secret
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love child of Elizabeth and juiciest of
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all Elizabeth was really a man she sent
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as a child to King Henry's hunting lodge
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to wait out an epidemic the rumor she
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dies and servants fearing for their
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heads dress a redheaded boy in her
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clothes and send him back in her place
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and of course it was the greatest kept
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secret in history because that is why
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Elizabeth was never able to marry
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because of course she was really a man
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its lurid its scandalous and it's utter
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nonsense it's enough to make you
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screaming mad and when Elizabeth got mad
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watch out
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she was very difficult to be around
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she had a hair-trigger temper that makes
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Naomi Campbell look like Mother Teresa
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there was very public and frequent spats
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between Elizabeth and her ladies she
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literally beat them in front of the rest
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of the court today they beg her to go to
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anger management but in the sixteenth
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century all they can do is that she
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broke one lady's finger she stabbed
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another in the back of her hand for
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serving her ill at dinner this was not a
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nice boss to have around 1575 Robert
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Dudley in a last-ditch attempt to get
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Elizabeth to marry him throws the party
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of the century turning his country
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castle into a Disneyland style theme
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park but her amusement there's a moving
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island traveling towards her with a Lady
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of the lake on it in a couple of nymphs
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there's an ambrosial banquet with 300
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dishes they have a 24 foot dolphin that
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they've created that becomes our part of
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the river and opens up and there are six
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musicians within it a plan to fire a lot
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of puppies and kittens from a cannon is
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canceled at the last minute apparently
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even the Elizabethans had their limits
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the party goes on for 19
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but Elizabeth still says no to Dudley
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it's amazing but she won't give him her
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hand
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Dudley soon remarries and Elizabeth
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banishes him from her presence she tried
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to have him clapped in prison in the
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town though everybody else told her that
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no she really couldn't do that she gets
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cranky ah with age she goes OTT
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over the top people who were really
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frightened of him
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in fact one courtier said she's so
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adamant and so hasta she's against love
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itself and keeping up her looks takes
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more and more makeup as Elizabeth got
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older she keeps herself a makeup more
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and more to cover up those telltale
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lines they gave away that she was no
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longer that beautiful young woman but
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the irony is that it was her makeup that
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was doing that to her the more she put
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on the more she needed the lead has been
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eating away at her she is almost 60 and
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she really needs this thick lead paint
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to cover her up there have been reports
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of people descending almost into madness
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as a result of extreme lead poisoning of
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course you give her the rosy cheeks this
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time we're using red mercuric sulfide
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cinnabar so that's actually mercury it
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is yes a terrible thing to put on your
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skin another poisonous substance on top
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of the lead in order to create a
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dramatic Rouge effect on her cheeks
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we're going to use the same coloration
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on her lips what you aspire for a fairly
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thin lips but as red as you can possibly
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make them totally goes against our
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modern views of makeup
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this unpredictable and cruel woman is
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because she's taking in all these toxins
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through her face that's what we see in
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this mask of Elizabeth the first her
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love of sweets finally catches up with
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her and her teeth turned black women at
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court gamely play along blackening their
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own teeth
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the French ambassador says Elizabeth
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holds a scented cloth to her face to
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cover up her bad breath the Venetian
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ambassador gets even busier uttering the
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r-word repulsive the Earl of Essex
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Elizabeth's new boyfriend walks in on
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her and has a workup screaming moment
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Elizabeth half bald without her wig her
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skin without makeup pocked and pitted
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there was a very poignant account of
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Elizabeth in the last year of her life
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finally calling for a looking-glass she
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was said to have thrown the glass away
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and been in floods of tears because she
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saw for herself what she really looked
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like in 1603 at the age of 69 she gets
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sick
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first it looks like a cold and then it
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becomes something that's obviously
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bronchitis or pneumonia her fingers
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swell and her wedded to England
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coronation ring has to be sawn off and
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she lies for three weeks on these
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cushions and refuses to change or to get
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up or to go to bed she had a finger in
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her mouth to prevent anybody giving her
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any food forcing her to eat she did not
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want any intervention by any doctors
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March 24th 1603 she dies after an
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astonishing 44 years on the throne to
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this day she's considered by many to be
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Britain's greatest monarch when
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Elizabeth came to the throne
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everyone thought she'd be lucky if she
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held it six months
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think of Elizabeth as this great queen
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Gloriana who changes the face of England
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and it partly because she rules was so
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long she inspired loyalty she could be a
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true friend but she could also be
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vindictive and she could be very
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self-centered so I can't
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in all honesty say I like Elizabeth but
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I do greatly admire her
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