When Elizabeth died in 1603 nearly half a century after that day under the oak, "as gently as an apple falling from a tree" someone said, and when her underthings were taken from her body it was seen that they still fitted the contours of the virgin; wasp-waisted, slim-hipped, long-limbed. It was a body which, according to some, had not fulfilled the purpose which God had fashioned it. It was supposed to have joined itself to a husband. To have grown his seed. To have given him and the country posterity. She had done none of this but no one in their right mind thought that she had failed her people. She had been different, that's all.

Simon Schama

Myriam Acharki

Jane Lapotaire

Simon Schama examines the long, tangled relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, who was executed by royal command in 1587.

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The Body of The Queen

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