This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Bette Davis
as Queen Elizabeth
Errol Flynn
as The Earl of Essex
Olivia de Havilland
as Lady Penelope Gray
Donald Crisp
as Francis Bacon
Alan Hale
as The Prince of Tyrone
Vincent Price
as Sir Walter Raleigh
Henry Stephenson
as Lord Burghley
Henry Daniell
as Sir Robert Cecil
James Stephenson
as Sir Thomas Egerton
Nanette Fabray
as Mistress Margaret Radcliffe
Ralph Forbes
as Lord Knollys
Robert Warwick
as Lord Mountjoy
