The Culture Show

Season 16, Episode 27

Episode Title: Episode 27: How to Paint a Queen: A Culture Show Special

Air Date: 2012-06-02

Overview:

There are more images of Elizabeth II than any other historical figure, but how to paint a queen is one of the trickiest of artistic challenges. Alastair Sooke looks at the depiction of Britain's female rulers, from Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria and our current monarch, and discovers how queenly portraits reveal Britain's changing ideas about women and power.