[tumblindice]

As a PS, I always wondered why Helen Mirren’s Queen E.had a cool Duke of Anjou, while Kate Blanchette’s Queen E.got a cross dressing turkey.
Unless she was really being pressured to find a hubbie and they were different dukes, this would probably be a good example of how TV can jam a stick in your spokes, hmmmm?

[katana]

Same Duke, different screen writer and director. The accurate part was the pressure she was under to find a husband and her reluctance and clever evasion. The woman was better educated and more intelligent than 99% of the men in her time so submitting to man, like the one who chopped her mother's head off and occasionally disowned her as a bastard, was not exactly in her comfort zone.

Historical films usually have grains of truth but the actual amount varies. For example, in Brave tHeart the first battle is referred to in history as "Sterling Bridge". Why? Because there was a bridge involved that was key to Wallace and the Scots winning. But it was much more dramatic for Mel to ride out and "pick a fight" with the English fops and invent the pike as a defense against armored cavalry. Great movie with little bits here and there of accuracy, but not history. And on English kingly names, the Norman, Scottish, and Hanoverian German ones are pretty easy. Henry, James, Charles, and George cover most of them. Real lack of imagination there. But when you start digging into the Saxons and Danes who preceded them it can get interesting.