Academy Awards, USA 1972
| Nominated Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Vanessa Redgrave |
| Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Terence Marsh Robert Cartwright Peter Howitt | |
| Best Costume Design Margaret Furse | |
| Best Sound Bob Jones John Aldred | |
| Best Music, Original Dramatic Score John Barry |
Universal Pictures
Directed by Charles Jarrott
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Universal)
In this sequel to Anne of the Thousand Days, Elizabeth has grown up to be queen of England, but fears that Mary, her cousin and queen of Scotland, will take away her throne. She conspires to ruin Mary by sending a hotheaded, homosexual dolt as bait for marriage, which amazingly works. The unhappy marriage results in a child, but also her eventual imprisonment after her husband is murdered by traitors. The film ends much the same way as the first, with a beheading and a child left alone to inherit the crown. Briskly paced and filmed in authentic castle locations, but gets bogged down in trashy melodrama. Richard Burton is sorely missed.
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