Costume designed by Elizabeth Waller for Glenda Jackson in “Elizabeth R” (1971), based on the “Phoenix” portrait of Elizabeth I.
If you would like to know more about this dress and others made for “Elizabeth R,” read Period Costume for Stage & Screen by Jean Hunnisett, who actually constructed many of the costumes for that production.
Costume designed by Mary Wills for Bette Davis in “The Virgin Queen” (1955).
From Profiles in History
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Anne,
In turning over in my mind the contents of your last letters I have put myself into great agony not knowing how to interpret them. Whether to my disadvantage, as you show in some places, or to my advantage as I understand them in some others. Beseeching you earnestly to let me know expressly your whole mind as to the love between us two. It is absolutely necessary for me to obtain this answer, having been for above a whole year stricken with the dart of love, and not yet sure whether I shall fail of finding a place in your heart and affection, which last point has prevented me for some time past from calling you my mistress; because, if you only love me with an ordinary love, that name is not suitable for you, because it denotes a singular love, which is far from common.
But if you please to do the office of a true loyal mistress and friend, and to give up yourself body and heart to me, who will be, and have been, your most loyal servant, (if your rigor does not forbid me) I promise you that not only the name shall be given you, but also that I will take you for my only mistress, casting off all others besides you out of my thoughts and affections, and serve you only. I beseech you to give an entire answer to this my rude letter, that I may know on what and how far I may depend. And if it does not please you to answer me in writing, appoint some place where I may have it by word of mouth, and I will go thither with all my heart. No more, for fear of tiring you.
Written by the hand of him who would willingly remain yours,
H.R.
Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue, by Andrea Mantegna, 1502
Allegory of England under the shadow of the Tudor rose, in an illustration taken from a manuscript of 1516.
{Magazine “History”, July 2011 - Italy}
Britannia sive Florentissimorum Regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et Insularum Adiacentium
William Camden. Londini: Newbery, 1586.FIRST EDITION. “‘The common sun, whereat our modern writers have all lighted their little torches.’-Nicolson.”-Lowndes, 357; STC4503.
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