England's Virgin Queen: Her Story & Facial Reconstructions Revealed | Royalty Now

Elizabeth I lived a life of tremendous ups and downs. In her 69 years, she was at one point a bastard Princess, a prisoner, and a glorious monarch - ruling as a woman in her own right. Elizabeth was one of the most astute rulers England ever had. So what did she really look like? In today’s video, we’ll explore her life, history, and true appearance. We’ll discuss which portraits of her may be the most accurate, her resemblance to her mother Anne Boleyn, and of course reveal some re-creations.
Narration & Art: Becca Segovia
Writing, Editing & Music Direction: Andre Segovia
0:00 Introduction
0:24 Early Life
6:32 Elizabeth as Queen
9:39 Romance With Robert Dudley
12:02 Smallpox
13:00 Mary, Queen of Scots
17:09 Spanish Armada
18:22 Later Years
19:45 What did Elizabeth Really Look Like?
23:54 Facial Reconstructions Revealed
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[@VG-hl1fl]

Do you have a blog or recommendation of a blog that covers King Henry viii, his wives, Elizabeth 1, etc? When I cannot watch these videos I would love to listen on my Bose SoundTouch while I'm doing work around the house. Thanks

[@amruthaavula2140]

Maybe an unlikely request, but can you do a portrait of how Lady Diana would have looked like in the Elizabethan or Victorian era please?

[@bettyjohnson7832]

Àa

[@geoffreyshubert2263]

She looks Irish Celtic

[@trellises]

The fact that she never married shows precisely the impact her father's endless marriages and her mother's execution had on her. What she thought of men and marriage.

[@MandyAustin-nl4cn]

That's a very interesting point.

[@eodyn7]

She loved men, she just loved married men.

[@MandyAustin-nl4cn]

@@eodyn7 people didn't marry for love those days, but for connections and security. So most had affairs.

[@makennaharris2965]

​@@eodyn7There is no evidence for that.

[@edricawebb1578]

The modern recreations of the portraits make it clear that Cate Blanchett looks most like the queen. Superb casting, not to mention the most nuanced portrayal.

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

I loved her as Elizabeth! She was a perfect cast

[@sheryldalton8965]

Cate is convincing portraying a queen as well as a southern backwoods woman.

[@ditzygypsy]

Yes she was fantastic, but in the movie with Margot Robbie and Saiorse Ronan, Saiorse should’ve been playing Elizabeth. This looks just like her.

[@DenaInWyo]

@@RoyaltyNowStudios My favorite Elizabeth as well. All of these movies and television shows embellish/omit actual history, but The Golden Age is still the one that captures my imagination of what Elizabeth was actually like. Reign, the little I watched of it, was just gross.

[@dulciemidwinter1925]

I agree. When I first saw the picture of her I knew it resembled someone but couldn't think of the name. Cate Blanchett it is!

[@skullsaintdead]

I honestly cannot fathom how clever and brilliant she was, to know that in that time, with a mother murdered by your dad, surrounded by men manipulating and plotting to marry and/or murder you, knowing all those perils... Yet she remained calm, was irreligious, sought reform and finally, marketed herself as a lifelong virgin (what a stroke of genius!). England was blessed with her reign. I'm taking notes.

[@Qwazier3]

Not to mention she spoke, read and wrote 5 languages, was an expert horse rider, a hunter, did expert needle point and was a math whiz. She was surrounded by men who wanted her to be queen. She made it a point to be at all meetings. She was large and in charge.

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[@Ziggimomspal68]

Someone needs to write a book comparing the reigns of the 2 Elizabeth’s, Queens of the realm.

[@indiranisiva5709]

@@Qwazier3 hi

[@joansutton]

She was brilliant. I feel a close connection with her bc I study Latin and Ancient Greek. Most people don't know that Queen Elizabeth was also a scholar. She was so good at Latin that she could improvise a speech in perfect Latin. She read Ancient Greek, I've heard, every day with a tutor. That's a side of her most people don't know. Her first tutor, Roger Ascham, praised her for her brilliant intelligence.

[@karen64watson.]

knowing who her father was and all what she had to go through it is a miracle that she lived to be queen .

[@buggalujuju]

I think that it was meant to be...

[@kyleenwise8751]

The modern one really touched me. I can't explain it, but I feel like that's her face, that's the true Elizabeth. I saw it and I stopped breathing, then smiled. Great work. Please never stop making these

[@budgetfamilyadventures8391]

I see Meryl Streep there too. It's the eyes.

[@tommyjohnson6410]

For crying out loud stop it because Elizabeth, her mother and father was black

[@tommyjohnson6410]

I guess for me the past 5 years i have been researching and finding out some fascinating information like the all the nobility, kings and queens of Europe was black. Old white authors was writing books about the Vikings and Nobility of Europe being swarthy for hundreds of years now so when i see fake stuff like this i get pissed

[@kyleenwise8751]

@@tommyjohnson6410 do you think queen Elizabeth 1 may have been black? I've never heard any records suggesting this. I'd be fascinated to see where that information comes from. If I know a lot of history had been white washed, and I always want to know truth. Where did you find this information?

[@kyleenwise8751]

@@angelwings7930 it's all based on reports. I'm sure the creators are aware that it's wishy washy, you can't be 100% accurate on the face of a person you've never seen. The fuss is because it's fascinating to see portraits and reports brought to life. There's no need to belittle the work these people are putting in to give us a face to the names. If you have other reports, that's fine. Please share if you have further reports. But please, allow people to also show what they feel is most accurate based off their research

[@PokhrajRoy.]

It’s nice to know that Queen Elizabeth I was truly her mother’s daughter. If only she had her mother’s company and guidance.

[@DovahHouse]

In the most recent movies about her with Cate Blanchett ( she did a amazing job to represent Elizabeth) but in the movie she said “ I am my fathers daughter” not sure if the real Elizabeth felt that way or not. She definitely was her own person at the same time, she never bowed down to anyone and I love that about her.

[@stevenleslie8557]

She learned a lot from just watching her father's reign, her brother's reign and her sister's reign.

[@debbylou5729]

Why? She seems to be more successful than Anne

[@jeannerossow5210]

What could her mother teach her that she had not already witnessed and absorbed?

[@hannahhester8376]

@@debbylou5729 Well yeah, because she wasn't beheaded.

[@mirandaawesome7502]

I would love to see you do Henry VIII - both from when he was young and handsome and then the larger version everyone remembers from his later life. These videos are so awesome! I could literally watch them all day!

[@graceb710]

Yes I second this!

[@krischambers9021]

There's so many biographies on king Henry the 8th. I find queen Elizabeth's story much more fascinating

[@a.m.308]

Meh. That mysogynist garbage, pathetic excuse for a man doesn't deserve recognition whatsoever.

[@chicken_grease_salt]

OMG! The modern interpretation of Elizabeth is amazing! She's lovely! Certainly a woman out of her time... You do wonderful work!

[@billybeads3328]

There are reports from foreign dignitaries to her court and all of them say she was far from attractive

[@Jesterjones9073]

My favourite too 💛

[@jenniferschwartzman7976]

She paid a high price for being England's Queen. She was magnificent, & her true beauty was in how she led her country through some very treacherous times. She is my favorite woman of all time. Imagining her on her horse, giving her famous speech to her men as the Spanish were starting their invasion, still thrills me. That people still know in 2023, 465 years later, not only her name, but the story of her life better than their current leaders, no matter which country they live in, kind of sums it up perfectly.

[@jehannedarc1429]

@@billybeads3328There were even more who said she was beautiful. Only the jealous said ugly things about her.

[@jehannedarc1429]

@@jenniferschwartzman7976 very well said!

[@DovahHouse]

Queen Elizabeth the 1st was definitely one of the strongest and smartest female rulers in history she was highly intelligent and witty. This is a great representation of her. 👍

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

Thank you!

[@littlemouse7066]

she was one of the greatest monarchs period. not female ruler. ruler.

[@KK-eh2gm]

I cannot believe she was not considered beautiful. This is a wonderful segment. Thank you.

[@ebuwaericaogbebor2736]

She was beautiful, but not as beautiful as Mary, Queen of Scots

[@Jenjenilou]

@@ebuwaericaogbebor2736 Mary Queen of Scots was almost 6ft tall as well, which was incredibly rare for a woman back then. She must have been incredibly striking in the flesh.

[@cincin4515]

She wasn't. Her face was scarred from lead based paste used as make up. She was the ugliest queen in history.

[@ebuwaericaogbebor2736]

@@Jenjenilou True

[@av1421]

in older years bald and more manly looking but pretty in younger yrs!

[@nikkiej.5875]

Queen Elizabeth I is known to be the best queen and rightfully so. I also think she was the only queen who didn’t have a husband during her reign. She was the only ruler which is just amazing. Your interpretations of the historical figures never disappoint. They’re just amazing. I love them.

[@MrsStepford]

An incredible woman! As a woman of "a certain age" myself the modernization of her more mature self is fantastic. She looks so beautiful in both but I love the more mature one.

[@robind7352]

Exactly!

[@ChandlerFaye]

Like other viewers, the modern rendition of Elizabeth in her middle years resonates with me the most, especially when she smiles. You captured her cleverness in a wonderful way.

[@kidr363]

Hi Chandler I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’ve been waiting for this! She’s such a complex and interesting historical figure in World History.

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

She has so many interesting nuances. Sometimes you’re convinced she’s the hero and sometimes she can be a real villain. She has so much to deal with in her life. Just a really fascinating subject all around.

[@michellestone1261]

Yes!!! A very wise woman! Like my momma, she was a Virgo also.

[@HK-gm8pe]

one of my favorite english monarchs , she really is sooo interesting and she was soo intelligent, what she achieved is really impressive, she had soo many enemies but she managed to survive

[@helenamcginty4920]

@@michellestone1261 by virgo I assume you refer to the illusory image of a woman created by the pattern made by certain dis- connected stars when viewed from earth. I never can see where the names for these images came from myself. As the light from the brightest of these took 40 light years to arrive at earth I also cannot understand why the light from our nearest star, the sun, a mere 8 minutes away or the light from a light bulb or candle in the room where a child is born if at night, are not included in the birth chart. After all the wavelength of light visible to humans is the same whatever the source.

[@grazynakolasinska1586]

No po prostu super!

[@melissajackson79]

Your recreation of Elizabeth was absolutely stunning,gave me chills.

[@introspectivedreamer3864]

A masterpiece ❤

[@yl7679]

The recreated looks of Elizabeth are actually quite striking and beautiful. The 2D portraits probably don’t do her justice. Her mother was Anne an afterall who was an attractive woman.

[@mabel8179]

The recreation of Elizabeth in her 20s is very pretty indeed. Some of you have said she reminds you of Meryl Streep. I can see that in how Meryl looked in the 1970s, but I think this image of Elizabeth resembles Saoirse Ronan even more so.

[@anneneville6255]

Idk but 24:48 I see Hilary Clinton 😄

[@theisolatedsoul1760]

Nah!!! Cate Blanchett

[@mayamagination]

And yet Saoirse played Mary of Scots instead 😭

[@astroterf.]

​@@anneneville6255oh that's just cruel 😭😆

[@johanderuiter9842]

True, looks a lot like Saoirse!!

[@dickwintered]

This is truly one of the best KZbin channels! Your recreations are breathtaking, and the history lessons are wonderful.

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

Thank you so much! We so appreciate it :)

[@Michelleliz701]

Agree 👌🏽

[@zyrenie]

HONESTLY

[@phyllispetras3369]

I know Jesus must have looked like Omar Sharif!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tommyjohnson6410]

@@zyrenie Stop agreeing with racism

[@Just_Darlicious]

That’s the best documentary I’ve seen on Elizabeth I. I really loved the real life interpretations at the end. She has a Meryl Streep look about her.

[@jjww1]

Yess some of those paintings look just like meryl Streep...

[@dianestrouse3418]

Isn't it amazing how a smile can change so much. She looked like somebody you would like to know.

[@byronlee8745]

In a handful of ways, Elizabeth I was better than her father, Henry VIII. Though she did see some difficulties in her reign as queen, including the challenge of being a prisoner of her own sister, the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, the conflict of the Spanish Armada, etc... I personally believe that she had succeeded as a leader where her father, Henry VIII had failed.

[@snoopybluejeans]

Her father ruled with his crotch.

[@abelhapedras]

"a handful of ways"? I'd say all of them, except maybe not producing an heir. you really said it all when you said she succeeded at ruling, where he failed

[@cincin4515]

What are you on about?

[@richardtorr4553]

Also, she was not a mass murderer!

[@richardIII3]

Elizabeth failed as a queen by not producing an heir which led to the gunpower plot and eventually the English civil war. Her successor James I because he didn't have a legitimate right to the throne, just like Augustus did with Caesar and Stalin did with Lenin, Deng did with Mao, created a personality cult around her in the manner of tyrants throughout history, which has persisted to the present day.

[@DianaMayeDesigns]

While they didn't consider her a beauty, I think we can agree that she was very pretty. Elizabeth I is my favorite queen after Anne Bolyn. I love how you pulled away the layers to show her in her glory and beauty. Your work is amazing.

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

Thank you so much. I love both her and Anne so much!

[@TwinsBigLikeTia]

She was considered beautiful when she was younger! It was after the smallpox and the scarring and heavy makeup that she wasn’t considered as beautiful anymore, but people did describe her as beautiful when she was younger in court, especially compared to her sister Mary. Also similar to her mother Anne, it was her intelligence and confidence that made her even more attractive even if some of her features were not conventionally beautiful, her personality made her very desired.

[@kidr363]

Hi Rose 🌹 I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@vaishnavikonidena1532]

@@RoyaltyNowStudios me too i love even Queen Elizabeth II

[@AngeliqueHope80]

Wow the recreations you did, if they show her as she truly was, feels strange to me that she was never viewed as beautiful, because she was actually quite stunning. And the part where Sir Dudley died and she was found on her deathbed with his letter had me in tears. What a spectacular woman.

[@jehannedarc1429]

There are records of many who called her beautiful.

[@Redmaile25]

Love your channel. If I were a history teacher, I’d show this channel from time to time to make the youngins appreciate history in a fun way

[@grown.ass.nerd.]

Once again you've left me breathless with your recreation of such a fascinating, complex, and tragic woman. You've captured her air of nobility and elegance beautifully and while she may not be the Cate Blanchett Elizabeth that the world knows, she would still command rooms and make people double take as she walks down the street. She is beautiful and I can't thank you enough for gifting the world with your talent of bringing history to life again.

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

You are so kind! I really loved working on this one, I’m so glad you enjoyed it :)

[@shelleyrollins4782]

I am SO glad that I found this channel!! One of my strongest passions is history and I was an artist in my younger days. I was just in awe of how you represented her! She came so alive & looked like she had a bit of an impish smile (which I think would suit from what you said of her). I just loved this! Thank you, thank you! Please continue to gift us with your research and amazing talent!

[@janbadinski7126]

I agree, Cate Blanchett looks a lot like her. It brings her to life again Imo.

[@dahnoied6893]

She "proved that she could rule as well as any man", I would suggest she proved she could actually rule better.

[@t.l.1610]

Like others commented, I too have always thought Cate Blanchett’s portrayal was likely the closest match to the real Elizabeth I. This vid really drives that home. VERY good work!!

[@LaPinturaBella]

Elizabeth was a wonder. Intelligent, strong, decisive, a great Monarch. And all of this born from trauma and uncertainty and fear from her earliest days. And in a time when women were thought to be less than. I really admire her strength.

[@maggiesmith856]

Elizabeth did not just inherit her mother's dark eyes. Like Anne Boleyn, she had a long, oval, high-cheekboned face, pointed chin, slender figure and long- fingered hands. From Henry she got her colouring, arched eyebrows , acquiline nose and tight lips.

[@lizbohan5426]

Henry’s beautiful pale skin was commented on during his youth. Elizabeth inherited this and his red hair.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

It’s sad that the Tudor Line came to an end with Elizabeth I but as someone who’s averse to marriage and seen things, I don’t blame her.

[@stevenleslie8557]

That would have required her to take a husband. Picking the right husband was a near impossibility. No matter who she choose a civil war almost a certainty when she produced an heir. The family of her husband would then be at odds with other families who felt they had a more legitimate claim to the throne. She had already seen enough intrigue and didn't want anymore of it.

[@debbylou5729]

She was very clever and paid attention to what was going on around her

[@jeannerossow5210]

Tudor patrilineal line ended, yes, but James of Scotland was a Tudor through Margaret, Henry's sister.

[@cincin4515]

Her staying single was a political strategy not an emotional decision. People weren't suffering self interest unril the 1980"s.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@cincin4515 _“People weren’t suffering self interest unril [SIC] the 1980”s [SIC].”_ *Huh??*

[@butterflyeffect6791]

Not a beauty? She is absolutely stunning in her own way. A powerful ruler who knew how to take care of her throne all by herself and never needed a master.

[@TheMelinda044]

I love that I stumbled upon your channel. I've always thought the paintings didn't do these women any justice and made them all look, well, ugly. You have done such justice to them and in my opinion are showing their true beauty. I love that you also tell about their lives. Please keep it going. I very much enjoy your work.

[@nickimontie]

Those early portraits give off a Meryl Streep vibe in her younger days. The queen was and still is a fascinating woman.

[@tarakennedy707]

I was thinking the same

[@helenamcginty4920]

And as she contracted smallpox at age 28 she had a badly pockmarked face afterwards.

[@tuvabru-nost1592]

Lol was just going to write the same.

[@ruthbosveld449]

I was thinking that as well.

[@pcrawford9009]

That was my exact thought!

[@Benni777]

Elizabeth’s story is both fascinating and sad at the same time. I feel like if she were respected by her father more, her life would’ve been very, very different. King Henry the 8th might’ve lived longer, as well, because he might’ve wanted to spend more time with her, instead of shunning her and killing her mother. Great video as always! I always admire your work and dedication! Could undo a video on King Henry the 8th, Cathrine Parr, and China’s only empress, Wu Zeitan? I’d love it if you would! ☺️

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

She was so interesting. I love that all of Henry’s anger/indifference towards her was kind of symbolically punished by Elizabeth never marrying and continuing the Tudor line

[@Anna_Key]

@@RoyaltyNowStudios interesting that QEI wanted to punish her father by not continuing his line. I'm sure her early experience of her father's tyranny to his wives and Thomas Seymour's lack of fidelity to his wife put her off too. Her successor, King James was a also a Tudor via Henry VIII's sister Margaret.

[@variyasalo2581]

Henry had syphilis. It's amazing he had children at all.

[@barbarageer2345]

Thanks for the facial reconstruction. I think she is pretty with today's makeup and hair standards. In most portraits, she doesn't look like she had eyebrows. It's amazing what a difference adding eyebrows makes in her looks.

[@fancii]

The fact that I loved about Elizabeth (which is even evident in their portraits) was the truth that has always been said of her: She was the spitting image of her mother with her father's coloring.

[@lyndasmith650]

I got a very eerie feeling that the modern portrait was silently saying...yes...I am Elizabeth. Powerful. One of the best I have seen of your work.

[@robertpizor577]

Just when I think you can't outdo yourself, Becca. My word. This is just such a vivid recreation: Elizabeth just leaps into our world, and comes to life! I love how you captured her humor and wit in that image, too. I've got to stop as I'm gushing, but I think other images to kind of round out the Tudor collection would be: Henry VII, Edward VI, Mary I (Bloody Mary), Philip II of Spain, and Robert Dudley would be so awesome to round out the family (and I do consider Robert Dudley to be an honorary Tudor as he would have been one if he could have, Roberts have to stick together after all lol).

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

Thank you, as always Robert!

[@aegontargaryen9322]

Two Elizabeth’s , two great queens . Both served the nation with dignity and strength. God bless you both and thank you

[@1CelloOne]

I just discovered your channel, I love it! I love the re-creations, but love the history too!

[@FoxofGold]

I love the quality these videos are showing more and more of. Love the history deep dives before the reconstruction.

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

Thank you! So glad you are enjoying it!

[@lindatimmons3675]

@@RoyaltyNowStudios .... I'd love to see Anne Neville and Elizabeth Woodville as well as Edward IV.

[@stellangios]

I've always felt rather weird and dissatisfied about my double eye creases but this actually makes me feel a little better! Your portrait are really beautiful and it's cool to hear that I share that trait with a historical figure.

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

I love them! You share that with Elizabeth that’s so cool

[@irishamericanpinupdoll]

The contemporary reconstruction is so relatable and lifelike! Beautifully done!

[@Barb85044]

This is becoming my favorite channel. I love history and I am an artist. Your work and story telling are exceptional.

[@valenciajames7264]

This is absolutely amazing, stunning & moving...I always believed this ICONIC woman's portraits/paintings did not do her beauty justice. To see Queen Elizabeth I in such beauty and light brought a tear to my eye. BRAVO...

[@lsherriejoseph7619]

This video is beautiful. I have studied Tudor history for many years and this is the first time that I actually felt something as opposed to gathering knowledge. I truly felt her. Thank you for sharing your excellent work

[@RoyaltyNowStudios]

Thank you so very much ❤️

[@shelleyrollins4782]

I agree! I really felt her too! You have a wonderful gift. Many thanks for sharing this with us!

[@izsmrt1]

Love your commentaries; your research is greatly appreciated. I find the transformations incredible!

[@conservativepatriot]

I love these recreations so much! Really really fun and captivating to watch! Thank you for all the hard work that goes into these presentations. They are remarkable.

[@AK-vv1ur]

Absolutely love this. Thank you so much for the informative history and amazing recreations of a much beloved Queen. Elizabeth resembles so much to Cate Blanchet and Meryl Streep. Elizabeth I truly was a mix of both Anne and Henry. She had the famous red/gold Tudor hair and pale complexion, with her mothers beautiful dark eyes and oval-shaped face. She had her mothers intelligence and charisma, but her fathers fierce temper. One can simply imagine the sheer power she held when standing in her presence.

[@vantedante3638]

I get so invested in the history and storytelling that I forget that this video is about how Elizabeth looked like haha I get emotional when I think about their personal lives and hardships this channel really makes these famous figures to be seen as human

[@zoesmusicaladventure7584]

These recreations are my favorites so far in all that I have seen of your work. Perfect...

[@sunzeneise]

Congratulations! On creating this most intriguing series offering informative and imaginative approach to historical figures.

[@reverie6034]

Beautiful! She’s my favorite historical figure. She definitely had her fathers charisma, intelligence and political astuteness plus the Tudor strawberry gold hair. But her face looks so much like her mother to me. Very well done. 👏👏👏

[@womerine]

You know it's close when it moves you to tears.

[@clairemarydawes]

I literally welled up when watching this. Amazing that you brought her back for today.

[@tracycraft2971]

I so love these recreations!! This series has just been amazing to me as I love history and those who played such a big part of it.

[@vackradelfin]

This one really took my breath away! You can see such likeness to Anne and Henry. It’s truly amazing!

[@shymapuss618]

😮your so right Lizzy looks like her parents and so intelligent

[@janicewhite1113]

I love the way that you tell the story of Elizabeth, she is a Queen that has always fascinated me even from childhood and I love the reconstructions

[@AuntieMamies]

I just adore this channel. I never really cared about history before but you tell it so well and the recreations are amazing! Just love it!

[@SherriJones7000Orphans]

I rarely comment on the videos I watch, or the channels I subscribe too, but your collection of work is so touching, and invigorating in its gentle, seemingly unbiased honesty that I just had to say thank you for sharing your gift with me and everyone else. As a lover of history, I've often wondered what these historical people would have really looked like and I'm so grateful to have lived to see someone with your talent bring these people to life. Thank you. Your gift is touching so many of us in so many ways. Thank you for making our dreams come true in a way that we can all feel good about. Please keep it up! I look forward to watching every one of your videos.

[@siobhano]

This is such an interesting portrait of her. I can really see both her mother and her father reflecting back at me. Such a lifelike creation. Enjoyed this very much.

[@Tatopotatoo]

That was a beautiful recreation. I can imagine Elizabeth seeing herself like that in the mirror. However, it is untrue that Elizabeth never mentioned her mother. She had great respect for Anne Boleyn and put in a lot of efforts to make apparent her disdain for her dad's actions. She surrounded herself with the Boleyn relatives (Mary's daughter who may be her half sister, the Howard family). Even her governess Kat Ashley was a Boleyn connection!

[@josiecamilo7098]

Who wouldn't! When daddy is a serial killer. I would love to go back in time and blow their minds telling these people that the babies sex is determined by the male not the female!!

[@Skyebright1]

I think she had a portrait of her mother that was a necklace

[@Skyebright1]

Yeah Mary’s daughter and son were part of Elizabeth’s court

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

_“She surrounded herself with the Boleyn relatives (Mary’s daughter who may be her half sister, the Howard family).”_ This doesn’t make sense. Can you please re-write it as normal English sentences that can be easily followed? Mary, the half sister of Elizabeth, wasn’t related to Anne. And what does the Howard family have anything to do with this?

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@Skyebright1 I think you’re thinking of the Chequers ring, which was mentioned in this very video. It shows a portrait of Anne on one side of the ring’s locket, and a portrait of Elizabeth on the other side.

[@HBLADY]

Absoutely stunning presentation! You make history engaging and your modern interpretations make your subjects wonderfully relatable. Thank you!

[@anniefannycharles9951]

This was excellent. Thank you so much for producing top quality works of history. And also for allowing it to be free to anyone that's interested. Great work

[@corkycobon1481]

She was the epitome of the anthem Rule Britania. I have always admired Elizabeth I due to her absolute determination to never have a man tell her what to do. She was fierce in her belief of herself and set a marvelous example for the next Elizabeth to sit the throne. Thank you for this video. The look of her in her mid 20s had me remembering Cate Blanchette as Elizabeth in the movie by the same name but I felt more of an affinity for her in the modern picture of her.

[@JarlOfSwot]

The modem interpretation of Elizabeth is amazing! She looks lovely and graceful, as though she could be performing in Riverdance.

[@bojo88]

Thank you so much, that was wonderful! That is the most succinct account of her life that I have seen (I am from the UK and have seen a great many!) it was done with a lot of empathy for her too. I love that you end every video with the life-like recreation, it is the icing on the cake. Every time my only comment is always, "Wow!" Love your channel and am blown away by your work, well done!

[@dmalf3]

Your images of her smiling at the end is wonderful. They make Elizabeth truly come to life.

[@carmaela2689]

Your rendition of her is stunning. I can see Henry in her. I like to think this is what she truly looked like.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

The modern version looks like a fiction novel author, huh? Haha.

[@AngelaChase]

I’d love to see Lucrezia Borgia brought to life!

[@GiadiXLoveDance]

Omg, yess! She is supposed to be very beautiful

[@gymkat247]

This is an excellent suggestion!

[@vtorialyn]

Wow, this was a wonderful video!! Thank you 🙏🏻🩷 I loved the modern recreations!! Well done 👏👏

[@kimberlyolsen9416]

This was a great video. Elizabeth I is one of my favorite historical figures. My family is descended through Mary Boleyn and my own sister looks very much like the modern version of Elizabeth, with that beautiful red hair and dark eyes. Their facial structures are similar also. I always envied that red hair. I married my husband who has red hair and later we learned he is descended from Mary Queen of Scots. Did we get red heads? NO! But out of our 18 grandchildren 5 five red hair, and one granddaughter is much as I would imagine Elizabeth was, red hair and all. This was lovely. Thank you.

[@IngridsLifestyle]

I like to think that Elizabeth's eyes are like her mother's eyes. There are a few portraits of Anne that might've been based on Elizabeth's eyes, since it is to say that was just like her mother's by contemporaries of Anne.

[@kidr363]

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[@TheRickie41]

The young Elisabeth touched me, so close to Henry's portraits, whereas the older Elisabeth inspires by her mother's eyes and a great sense of independence shining through...great work!!!

[@jerrychan1471]

Beautiful job with the renderings and storytelling. I loved hearing about Elizabeth I's storied life, and especially to see her rendered so life-like was truly remarkable. Thank you for the education!

[@laurelhimes7458]

THANK YOU! I got tears in my eyes when seeing your interpretations. Simply beautiful. I have always admired this queen and you have brought her to life❤️

[@andrika1990]

I remember there have been a few on screen portrayals of her but one that really stands out for me is Cate Blanchett's. I also am thinking they possess very similar facial structures according to your recreation which reminds me a bit of Cate. This was an outstanding recreation!

[@tommyjohnson6410]

STOP IT all the kings, and queens of Europe was black you of all people should know that ✊🏿

[@andrika1990]

@@tommyjohnson6410 I have no doubt there was influence of us in Europe but I don't know if everyone was black. Are you siding with the theory about us being in the Americas as well before Columbus? Evidence I've heard we may have visited as well as countless other nations but I find it hard to believe we stayed.

[@shelleyrollins4782]

Did you discover & live in the 2 Poles as well?

[@tjp2109]

@@tommyjohnson6410 well then if blacks were smart enough they would have defended their territory and still be in power, but they were vanquished in Europe, it seems. White people are intelligent conquerors. That's why they conquerored the world. Let the smartest culture win.

[@tommyjohnson6410]

@tjp2109 We were smart enough to create you. You were running around Europe on all 4s. You couldn't speak and had no language. You had no names that very name you have today is black. We ruled over you for 2,000 years. You were peasants, soldiers, and sex slaves. White women were more valuable than gold. We changed the complexion of Europe with white women. The Egyptians, Etruscans, Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians, Vikings culture, and all the nobility kings, and queens of Europe were black up until the 1800s. You have been in power for less than 300 years.

[@davidlogan4329]

Most enjoyable view of a very great Tudor Queen.

[@loditx7706]

Very interesting, abbreviated history. I particularly liked the time you took to include and explain the portraits. I loved the smile on the last one, which allowed one to imagine her as charming and having fun, something difficult to do with most of her portraits. I know that she loved to dance and that smiling lady did, too, I bet.

[@carolelerman9686]

Loved this recreation of Elizabeth. Beautiful when she smiles.

[@emiliesparks8208]

Would you ever consider doing Anne of Cleeves? Her appearance was so disputed between the paintings and what King Henry said of her. Besides her being an incredible woman on her own merit, I have always been deeply curious about her.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Did you see the Anne (or rather Anna) of Cleeves episode? It was great!

[@RussiaIsARiddle778]

I really enjoyed this especially the images at the end. I have to say that the modernization of her face, including her smile actually make her look, by today’s standards, quite beautiful. Very nicely done and thank you.

[@lovedaybebe5881]

Breathtakingly beautiful 🙏 this series is such a gift 🙏 thank you !

[@pilvikkiitisso5010]

Love how the recreation brought out the wit and charm that were mentioned! Thank you!

[@marjorieroman9591]

Another absolutely exciting work from you! Love it!

[@ravenslullabye]

Another amazing video. The story of Elizabeth and her mom has always fascinated me. Lovely recreations. Thank you!

[@ncree4526]

Thrilled to find your amazing channel! Unique blend of academic artistry in history presented with entertaining imagination. You are the complete package! The final older recreation of Elizabeth, as she smiled at us across the ages & thru your brilliant lens suggested Meryl Streep, a modern queen of the arts. What conversations they would have, eh?! Thank you !,

[@aucourant9998]

Excellent recreations. Much better than many others I've seen. The look and spirit of the originals have been maintained.

[@paigeparrish7567]

I absolutely LOVE all of your videos but lately have been especially loving the elongated history section at the beginning that I have noticed lately. The recreations are what attracted me to the channel but the research that's done is just such a great synopsis. I can digest the information so well that I'm regurgitating it to anybody who will listen. lol. please keep doing what your doing :)

[@shuffleaccount1985]

The work you do to bring these amazing people to life is astonishing , thank you

[@tkucey8689]

That was very informative and enjoyable and I have to say I think that's the first time I've ever seen a recreation smiling. What a difference it makes.

[@alliereesor115]

I'm obsessed with these videos and facial recreations absolutely love seeing these famous faces smile.

[@portcityminis]

This is so inspiring. She was a better ruler than her father

[@terryl.cooper]

That's because grand-dad ruled with his emotions. My cousin ruled with her head. As it should be.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

This was such a fun video! Great work on the research 👏🏽

[@johniahedson7125]

I love hearing you. Giving me a history lesson and the recreations at the excellent. Thank you 💗

[@OfficeTrainingLady]

Thus was absolutely amazing. Thank you for making them smile in the end. It was such a gift.

[@Haley-hz9gj]

This was incredible!! I just ordered one of the books. Wonderful video. Keep it up!! Xoxo

[@barleythebearstoriessarahf6358]

Love this! Fascinating and the modern recreations were simply wonderful. ❤️

[@jamesedwin7497]

Wildly fascinating, and amazing artistry! I was greatly impressed with the history and your visionary artistry. Wow!