This is absurd.
As reported by the Daily Mail, a new book called The King's Deception by Steve Berry has supposedly unearthed "the biggest deception in British history": namely that Queen Elizabeth was actually a man, and the "truth" has been covered up for centuries. Here's how the theory goes.
The "real" Elizabeth died of the plague aged 10, fifteen years before ascending to the throne.
Via: The Elizabethan Gardens, Ray Matthews / AP
This fact was concealed from her father, Henry VIII, by Elizabeth’s governess, Lady Kat Ashley, and her guardian, Thomas Parry.
They feared execution at Henry's hand, runs the theory, since it had been their job to protect the princess. And apparently Henry just clean never noticed that his daughter had been replaced by an imposter.
Via: Hulton Archive / Getty Images
She was then buried in the Cotswold village of Bisley in Gloucestershire. A local boy was told to dress in her clothes, and stand in for her. For the next six decades.
Makes perfect sense, right?
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Via: dailymail.co.uk
