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In the summer of 1548, the thirteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth Tudor was secluded at Cheshunt, England. There she gave birth to a boy, whose father was Thomas Seymour, Elizabeth’s stepfather. The child was placed in the household of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and the changeling baby was raised as Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Edward de Vere was an acknowledged playwright, poet, theatrical producer, musician, dancer and literary figure of the Elizabethan era. He wrote under several pen names and also under names of living persons. His most famous pen name was "William Shakespeare."
Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I SYNOPSIS This book argues two very controversial positions. First, that Queen Elizabeth I had a child in July 1548 when she was fourteen, and second, that this child was raised as Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, better known to the world by the pen name of ¿¿¿William Shakespeare.¿¿¿
The book challenges all notions of the Virgin Queen by arguing that Elizabeth had more than one child, that she was the lover of Robert Dudley and that she and Dudley were co-conspirators in the death of Dudley¿¿¿s wife, and that Elizabeth was the mother of the young Earl of Southampton, to whom Shakespeare dedicated Venus and Adonis.
The book advances the growing notion that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was Shakespeare by showing that Shakespeare/Oxford¿¿¿s body of works was much larger than previously supposed including Ovid Metamorphoses credited to Arthur Golding and Romeus and Juliet, credited to an illusive Arthur Brooke. The book also includes a new poem When Silly Bees Speake, which it asserts is a poem by William Shakespeare.
The book is a direct challenge to two of the greatest traditions of English history: The Virgin Queen and the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon.
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