Elizabeth Tudor was never supposed to be Queen.

The daughter of Henry VIII and his second and most notorious wife, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was born amidst religious and political turmoil in England. Join us for the origin story of Elizabeth I.

Before she was the Virgin Queen and Gloriana, she’d been an illegitimate princess used as a pawn to prop up the ambitions of the unscrupulous men around her. This story has it all: lecherous old men, terrible fathers, annoying brothers, formidable sisters and at the center of it all . . . a young girl poised to change history forever and upset the very foundation of gender roles and expectations, becoming one of England’s most celebrated monarchs.