First Photos From Starz's 'Becoming Elizabeth' Reveal the Young Queen
Starz has gained a reputation for quality female-focused historical dramas in recent years thanks to their successful series The White Queen, The White Princess, and The Spanish Princess. But while those shows were focused on the lives of some of the lesser-known---or at least less frequently appreciated in popular culture — English queens such as Elizabeth Woodville, Elizabeth of York, and Catherine of Aragon, their latest offering, titled Becoming Elizabeth, will take aim at the life of a monarch everyone is deeply familiar with, Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Yet, Becoming Elizabeth aims to tell the famous queen's story from a new angle: By focusing on her often ignored youth.
The daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth saw her mother beheaded when she was just two years old. Though her parents' marriage was annulled and she was declared illegitimate, Elizabeth spent most of her childhood being alternately welcomed to and banished from court, living in a variety of royal houses and meeting what must have seemed like an endless stream of stepmothers.
