When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.
If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.
When the whole point of Queen was to be original.
If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.
Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
The Queen is the ultimate dictator.
In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.