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We went through her affair with Leicester, her courtship by Philip of Anjou, the Mary, Queen of Scots, affair, and the Spanish Armada, on the ep I saw.  Fun.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually just a two-part mini-series, about the latter half of her reign (I saw 1 of 2).  But worth renting one of these days from Netflix (if I ever get a Netflix account) to see the whole thing.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost always find something to watch on it when I&#8217;m on business trips, and I would likely watch a lot more TV than I do if I had it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135569,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/07\/old-mans-war-coming-netflix.html","url_meta":{"origin":9813,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Old Man&#8217;s War&#8221; is coming to Netflix","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Dec-17 2:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my favorite books. 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