The Virgin Queen (1955 film)

The Virgin Queen is a 1955 DeLuxe Color historical drama film in CinemaScope starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd and Joan Collins. It focuses on the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Sir Walter Raleigh.

In 1581, Walter Raleigh Richard Todd, recently returned from the fighting in Ireland, pressures unwilling tavern patrons into freeing from the mud the stuck carriage of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester Herbert Marshall. When Leicester asks how he can repay the kindness, Raleigh asks for an introduction to Queen Elizabeth I Bette Davis, to whom Leicester is a trusted adviser. Leicester grants the request.Elizabeth takes a great liking to Raleigh and his forthright manner, much to the disgust of her current favorite, Christopher Hatton Robert Douglas. As the court ventures outside, Raleigh graciously drapes his cloak an expensive item borrowed from a reluctant tailor over some mud so that the Queen need not soil her shoes. At dinner, Raleigh reveals his dream of sailing to the New World to reap the riches there. Elizabeth decides to make him the captain of her personal guard. He enlists his Irish friend, Lord Derry Dan OHerlihy. ........

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