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Factual error: In Elizabeth the Golden Age there is a scene that depicted Sir Francis Walsingham's death in 1590. Whist lying on the bed in his last minutes, you can see the Rainbow Portrait of Elizabeth, which hadn't been painted until 1600, hanging on the wall behind him.

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Factual error: In the film, during the battle against the Spanish, the queen Elizabeth is depicted in her nightie on the cliffs of Dover but we have knowledge that the queen was actually staying in London.

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