Secret meeting of James VI of Scotland & Elizabeth I

[Mazzini]

Does anyone know where the 'secret' meeting took place between Q.E.1 and James VI?

[Mazzini]

Ah, thank you, In A Pickle.  I thought I hadn't seen that meeting in an Elizabeth I epic before, like you say shame when they bend the truth.  Still I quite enjoyed the production - well when you compare it to most of the drivel we are offered.... thanks again for enlightening me.

[jno]

last time Elizabeth met Mary was in the Vanessa Redgrave/Glenda Jackson movie in the 1970s. That was wrong too.

[surfer mike]

exactly right in a pickle.. as well acted as it undoubtedly was..it was full of inaccuracies and those two were belters..

[david_harry]

Whilst historically incorrect I must say that it is a travesty to say it was badly acted. Helen Mirren's performance was mesmerising

[Famous5]

The idea of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots meeting isn't new. German playwright Friedrich Schiller included this in his play Maria Stuart, first produced in 1800

[Johnmof]

For some reason film makers seem to delight in making up meetings between famous people that never happened. In Khartoum, Charlton Heston (Gordon) slips out into the desert to have a secret confab with the Mahdi (Lawrence Olivier). In Braveheart, Wallace not only has a secret meeting with Edward the Second's missus but has knowledge of her in a biblical sense. All very entertaining, but complete fabrications.