Netflix’s Bridgerton has swept viewers off their feet with its lush blend of romance tropes-fake relationship, forbidden love, “we could be together if only we could stop misunderstanding each other”-anchored by the soapy, searing gossip of one Lady Whistledown. Meanwhile, Henry’s widowed sixth wife, Catherine Parr ( Jessica Raine) maneuvers to take. Of Henry’s three legitimate children, the third in line for the royal scepter enters a game of thrones in earnest with her Anglican younger half-brother Edward ( Oliver Zetterstrom) and Catholic older half-sister “Bloody” Mary ( Romola Garai). Just in time for the Jubilee of her namesake Elizabeth II, England’s longest reigning monarch, Starz and creator Anya Reiss (“EastEnders”) gaze back to another, lesser-known micro-slice of Tudor history in “ Becoming Elizabeth.” The series asks: what was happening to the wicked smart, red-haired “virgin” queen-to-be in the tumultuous months following the death of her father, Henry VIII, in 1547 - and over a decade after Pops beheaded her unpopular mother Anne Boleyn? The word orphan doesn’t quite describe the politically fraught and emotionally unstable situation in which the vulnerable 14-year-old ( Alicia von Rittberg) finds herself.
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