The first-look photos of the forthcoming convention-defying drama of Anne Boleyn, starring Queen and Slim star Jodie Turner-Smith as the notorious Tudor Queen has been released.

The three-part series attempts to re-lookthe final days of the Queen's life as a kind of psychological thriller, fighting to save herself from death, to make a better future for her daughter, Princess Elizabeth, and to fight back against Tudor England's patriarchal society.

The Channel 5 series made headlines by bringing inTurner-Smith, marking one of only a handful of occasions when a Black actor played a significant royal character on a British broadcaster. And the photos posted are undoubtedly beautiful, especially the stunning photograph of Turner-Smith in black velvet, featuring Anne's signature "B" pendant.

"There's so much about her storey that she feels modern," Turner-Smith said to British Vogue, who first released the images. "It's one I can relate to as a Black woman, and it shows how little has changed in our desire to tear down powerful women, not to let them live in their truth."

The actual Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, crowned by an extremely divisive courtship which saw King Henry VIII set aside his wife for almost twenty-five years and split with the Catholic Church in order to be around her.

Her stormy relationship resulted in Anne's assassination, as she was convicted of wrongdoing spanning from adultery to witchcraft. She was beheaded when Elizabeth was just two years old."She questioned the rules at a world where women were viewed as objects and mistresses. She wanted a place at the table, and she loved hard—and, of course, because of that history has portrayed her as an adulterous, six-finger Jezebel," Turner-Smith said.

Actor Mark Stanley, perhaps best known to American people for his appearance in Game of Thrones, but who may have been recognisable as Bill Sikes in Dickensian, plays King Henry.

Her co-stars include Amanda Burton (White House Farm), Thalissa Teixeira (Two Weeks To Live), Barry Ward (White Lines), and Jamael Westman (Hamilton) also feature.The series ended up in production in Yorkshire in December and would be aired later this year. There's really no news as to where this series could end up on this side of the ocean, but it really is definitely the kind of buzzy series that somebody's going to want to pick up. Sony Pictures Television is managing worldwide distribution, so let's hope we'll get much more news about this in the upcoming months.