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Mary Stuart03 August 2005
Image: Harriet Walter (Elizabeth) and her court confronted by Janet McTeer (Mary Stuart) - photo by Neil Libbert
The story of two rival queens

In 1800, the German playwright Friedrich Schiller dramatised the most famous bitter rivalry in British Monarchy, between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen Of Scots.

Schiller's play, Mary Stuart, hinges on a meeting between the adversaries, although in real life the two never met. It's currently enjoying a sell-out season at the Donmar Warehouse in London. 

Jenni speaks with Harriet Walter who plays Elizabeth, and Janet McTeer, who plays Mary Stuart about bringing the animosity alive 400 years on. Historian Nicola Watson will discuss the appeal of the story of the two feuding queens.


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