The New Elizabethans

Wikipedia. (2014). Keira Knightly. Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keira_Knightley. Last accessed 5th December 2014.

I have picked Keira Knightly as someone whom I feel shares some characteristics with a Elizabethan. As an actress, Keira is always In the public eye, but I feel that she deals with her fame in a very graceful way that reminds me of Queen Elizabeth. Kiera wears a lot of royal colours such as dark red, emeralds and a lot of gold. Like the queen she is a strong woman who voices her opinions, speaking out in interviews against photoshopping. Keira has been Photoshopped multiple times during her career, and recently was photographed topless, which was featured without touch ups in a magazine. The point Keira was trying to make here is that in future she wants to be in control of the image of herself that people see, and does not want to be edited to be shown as something she isn't. Queen Elizabeth monitored her portraits so that only ones that she had approved could be seen, and although Keira is against modifying an image, she is still controlling what the public see.

Although set in the 18th Century, Keira's hair in 'The Dutchess' reminds be of the
hairstyles seen in Elizabethan times. 

BBC. (2014). The Dutchess. Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/film/the_duchess. Last accessed 5th December 2014.