{"id":87,"date":"2006-01-21T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/article-from-the-scotsman-on-the-virgin-queen\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T21:24:57","slug":"article-from-the-scotsman-on-the-virgin-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/article-from-the-scotsman-on-the-virgin-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Article from the Scotsman on &#8220;The Virgin Queen&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>LIKE A VIRGIN<\/p>\n<p>A COSTUME drama about Queen Elizabeth I hardly seems the thing to create controversy, but that is exactly what Paula Milne&#8217;s new four-part series for BBC1, The Virgin Queen, has managed to provoke. However it&#8217;s not for the reason you might suspect &#8211; Milne&#8217;s Elizabeth may seem like a modern woman full of recognisable desires, but there is no suggestion that she physically consummated any of her relationships with her many suitors. The Virgin Queen remains a virgin. No, what is troubling purists is that Milne &#8211; despite being offered the services of Simon Schama and David Starkey &#8211; instead chose among her sources a populist book for teenagers &#8211; The Terrible Tudors, which is peppered with lavatory humour &#8211; which came from a list of books suggested to Milne by a London headmaster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full article here<\/p>\n<p>(original links have expired and have been removed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIKE A VIRGIN A COSTUME drama about Queen Elizabeth I hardly seems the thing to create controversy, but that is exactly what Paula Milne&#8217;s new four-part series for BBC1, The Virgin Queen, has managed to provoke. However it&#8217;s not for the reason you might suspect &#8211; Milne&#8217;s Elizabeth may seem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/article-from-the-scotsman-on-the-virgin-queen\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}