10 Doctor Who Answers Given YEARS Later

10. Why Did Queen Elizabeth Hate The Doctor?

Queen Elizabeth I’s surprise appearance at the end of The Shakespeare Code was mostly just included as a one-off joke, with no real plan as to what the Doctor would do in his future to upset her to the point that she calls for his head.

For the rest of the Tenth Doctor’s run a lot of fans wondered if we were ever going to see what had happened, but there was no such luck.

Series 3 and 4 passed without a return to Elizabethan England, David Tennant regenerated into Matt Smith, and it seemed like the mystery of the Tenth Doctor and Lizzy Number One was going to be just another reference to the many random adventures the Doctor has offscreen.

But then over six years after The Shakespeare Code, The Day of the Doctor rolled around, which reunited Ten with his so-called "sworn enemy." But instead of chopping off each other's heads, they were feeding each other grapes, and – against the Doctor's wishes – getting married.

The Doctor then abandoned his bride and fled in the TARDIS, explaining why she had been so angry at him all those years ago.

It was rewarding for everyone who remembered watching The Shakespeare Code in 2007 to finally get an explanation for the episode’s memorable surprise cliffhanger.