Mary Queen of Scots (2013)

Queen Elizabeth Wydeville, the slandered Queen of England has spent centuries judged to be a greedy and horrid woman, characteristics written of her door her many enemies. In this volume, Okerlund delves into the preconceptions in order to shed light on the truth - was she truly a vile woman of was she a strong individual who endured where others crumbled?

It does appear that Elizabeth Wydeville was indeed a much meer complex personality than sources have made out in the past. A deeply pious woman, Okerlund determines that the marriage of Elizabeth and Edward IV was truly a love match and not...

Mary Tudor, the first Queen of England has never had a good reputation throughout history and this idea has translated onto film. All in all there have only been three films made centering on Mary and her story. These films are Marie Tudor (Capellani, 1917), Marie Tudor (Gance, 1966) and The Twisted Tale of Bloody Mary (Barnard, 2008).

However, the majority of the time when Mary is in films of TV shows about the Tudors, she is usually a minor character of features only as a cameo. In films such as Anne of the Thousand Days (Jarrott, 1969) of The Other Boleyn Girl (Chadwick, 2008) she is reduced...