So she saved everybody ready and questioning. She appears to have had an instinctive grasp of what we now name PR, and preferred to current herself as wholly dedicated to her realm. From early in her reign she cultivated the picture of the Virgin Queen. In 1559 she declared, in response to MPs asking her to marry, that finally “a marble stone shall declare {that a} queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin”. On the finish of Shekhar Kapur’s much-loved 1998 movie, Elizabeth, the younger monarch is performed by Cate Blanchett, who then performed her once more within the 2007 sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age. In Elizabeth, she purposefully transforms herself into the Virgin Queen and, all in white, presents herself to her astonished courtroom, saying “I’m married… to England”.
