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Shocking new theory about Elizabeth I unearthed in historic manuscripts
2013-06-10
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Shakespeare didn't write his own stuff, William Henry Harrison died from poisoned buttermilk, LBJ had JFK shot, 9-11 was an inside job... Now Queen Elizabeth was a guy in drag.

And the world will end last December.
Posted by:Fred

#17  TW: I got as far as the statement alleging that his daughters weren't taught to read before my brain rebelled.

(It's not that Amelia Bassano isn't an interesting subject, I've just become hostile to the whole "but there's no way that idiot from Stratford could have done it" argument.)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-06-10 23:47  

#16  Personally I'm both depressed and desolate over the amount of anti-Stratfordian sentiment displayed here.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-06-10 23:10  

#15  Because there's only so many times one can cluck over the other articles.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-06-10 21:25  

#14  It says something that Rantburgers' most commented on item is this one.
Posted by: Glarong Sneart4734   2013-06-10 19:41  

#13  Running for Secretary of State, Skunky?
Posted by: Bobby   2013-06-10 18:07  

#12  At this point, what difference does it make?
Posted by: Skunky Thimble2023   2013-06-10 16:48  

#11  ...Heh.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-06-10 16:08  

#10  I always thought Elizabeth wrote Shakespeare. But if Elizabeth wasn't actually Elizabeth ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-06-10 15:19  

#9  Yeah, yeah. And Shakespeare's plays were really written by a not-so-nice Jewish girl from Aldgate. Link.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-06-10 15:01  

#8  like the ones written by Dan Brown

Hey, I love Dan Brown books. Especially the one about the intellectual professor who just happens to have a fitness skill that allows him, along with the spunky but gorgeous heroine, to thwart a deeply-hidden world-threatening conspiracy.
Posted by: SteveS   2013-06-10 14:58  

#7  I wouldn't be surprised if she was barren (and not actually a virgin) but the she's a man baby theory is just stupid.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-06-10 14:47  

#6  Mitch,

I agree. In addition to noblewomen there would have been dozens of servants who helped bath and perfume QE the I. There is also the matter of the Sir Robert Dudley who knew Liz both when she was little and when she was queen and who was, by his own words, in love with her (while married to another).

This 'theory' is really just a premise for a book based on a false history (like the ones written by Dan Brown)
Posted by: lord garth   2013-06-10 14:25  

#5  Foolishness. Monarchs of that era had no personal privacy. There were a swarm of noblewomen who would have seen the Queen over the years in her altogether. Furthermore, the alleged cross-dresser was imprisoned for years at the hands of her sister the Queen, who definitely would have twigged immediately to the "fact" that her Protestant sister and heir presumptive was neither her sister nor any sort of relation.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2013-06-10 14:00  

#4  Won't happen. The files will still be sealed and entombed deep within the D.C. Obama City crypt. Printed copies and fotos will be available in the book store adjacent the spiral minarets.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-06-10 08:59  

#3  Imagine a couple hundred years from now about the 'birther' documents. Shocking new theories indeed.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-06-10 08:51  

#2  So maybe she was Edward De Vere's Mother... and Father?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-06-10 08:12  

#1  I go with the theory that Liz number One was a hemorphidite, and was "confused" at an early age.
Posted by: Au Auric   2013-06-10 00:51  

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