content: This film only merits two stars to give credit to the costume and set designers. The rest is pure trash. The script sounds like it was written by a bad romance novelist and the historical inaccuracies are amazing. The characters are pure stereotype. If you are intersted in a dramatization of Elizabeth's life you would be better off going to the old "Elizabeth" series with Glenda Jackson. Even the 70's movie "Mary, Queen of Scots" does a better job with the same material.