Bloody Queens: Elizabeth and Mary

A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I, detailing the hatred and obsession in their bitter rivalry. Expert historians examine and interpret the royals' motives for the animosity that lasted more than two decades, and which threatened to tear apart the reigning monarch and her kingdom.

• Renny BartlettDirector

• Helen BradburyElizabeth I
• Beth CookeMary, Queen of Scots
• Adam BurtonThomas Randolph
• Michael JennLord Burghley
• Jamie LairdSir James Melville
• Simon CottonLord Robert Dudley
• Nicholas AgnewAnthony Babington
• Bernard HillNarrator