God, thank you. All of this. I understand this is a movie and some liberties need to be taken but as a history nerd (and huge fan of QEI and her life) a lot of these “interpretations” bother the shit out of me.

Well, historically Mary Stuart, whether she was ambitious or not for the crown, got the last laugh in her legitimacy to the English throne, because her son James VI of Scotland became James the 1st ruling over the combined crowns of both England and Scotland. The bloodline proves she had every right, but with herself a…

But there is contemporary evidence that Elizabeth was insecure about Mary’s relative youth and her rumored great beauty. She did in fact often ask to be reassured (perhaps not in so many words, but she did want to hear it) that she was still beautiful and desired (and it would have been somewhat typical courtly…

I don’t know why this version does not appeal to me as I am for an all-Tudor 24-hr channel...can’t get enough Tudor. Also portrait painters must have been bad in the day as Mary comes off not all that different from Elizabeth (or other women of the era) in her portraits and not strikingly better looking.  

Knowing all of this I’m still going to see it, albeit by myself because NONE of my friends and family watch historic trashy costume dramas. I’m a sucker for Elizabeth I. 

Ah, the time-tested 14 Day Trial By Orgasm. The old ways are the best ways.

What an egotistical jerk. I would totally not call him again after the sex.

I’d give him two weeks to convince me not to murder him by having lots of sex.

Oh my god. The person who rips my book would have his balls fed to him through his nostrils. BOOKS ARE FRIENDS. RESPECT BOOKS, DAMMIT. Even my six and three year olds learned this lesson early.

I would murder him.

“I should have been a bigger person, and I should have left,”

Let anyone who is surprised by this step forward and receive your “duh” forehead tattoo.

My first thought when I saw that pic of Kendall was

So glad you wrote something about this! I can’t believe there was outrage over this.

If you’d a been there! If you'd a seen it! I betcha you would have done the same

“And then he stuck his neck into my mouth. He stuck his neck into my mouth ten times!”

I’m picturing the cell block tango, except with lionesses now.

Can I make it any more obvious?

He was a boy lion; she’s a girl lion.

Lionesses are afraid lions will laugh at them. Lions are afraid lionesses will kill them.