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Virgin queen and love triangle with Sir Walter (Movie)

Putting matters of state before affairs of the heart earned Elizabeth I the title of the Virgin Queen.

However, a Hollywood film is about to claim that she was so in love with Sir Walter Raleigh that she had one of her ladies-in-waiting seduce him so she could live out her own sexual fantasies.

Elizabeth The Golden Age will claim that an infatuated Queen Elizabeth, played by Cate Blanchett, longed for a physical relationship with Raleigh, played by Clive Owen, but held back for fear of losing her crown. Instead, she engineered a relationship between Raleigh and her close confidante Elizabeth "Bess" Throckmorton so she could enjoy a love affair by proxy.

The £20 million film, sequel to the 1998 hit Elizabeth I, has been criticised by historians who claim dramatic licence has got in the way of historical evidence.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)