Elizabeth Ginger
Welsh Gloriana
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"Miss Elizabeth Bullen-Tudor" Mark Littler 2013
Noted that The Tudor rush continues with a new archaeological conspiracy thriller on the market " The kings Deception" by the American tourist Steve Berry
based around the nineteenth century vicarage urban legend of the Bisley Boy
The Bisley Boy legend is no more real than other clergyman legends such as Lucy Lightfoot or the Radcliffe wharf ghost.
The Bisley boy stems from the "finding" of a grave at Bisley Hall containing the richly dressed skeleton of a child
By coincidence Princess Elizabeth Tudor had stayed there recovering from illness and must have (the secrets out) died the morning of a visit from her father Henry VIII --always eating and cutting off heads himself .
Quick thinking by terrified courtiers found the solution dress up someone of the same age and looks as the dead princess
A child was found a boy with red hair and the courtiers were saved so successful a deception that the Bisley Boy carried on being Elizabeth
hardly a secret to shake the monarchy .
Another lesser known royal secret of the Sixteenth century, less interesting is that is it is Scottish History is that of the Mar Changeling
Based on the 1830 discovery of a coffin buried between the walls of Holyrood Palace containing a richly wrapped skeleton of an infant bearing the letter J on his silk gown the tale urban as it was spread this was the body of the real James Stuart heir to Mary Queen of Scots who was isolated with illness not long after birth, died and was exchanged for the healthy baby of his wet nurse this story was popularised to support the eccentric claimsof king Anthony Hall
James the Sixth was supposed to have grown up as a lonely parentless only child doubting his legitimacy and here is the irony
The Virgin ueen Elizabeth who was really a man impersonating a long dead Princess was succeeded by the king of Scotland who was really a changeling for the deceased Stuart infant
The tale was depicted in Numerous Victorian Gothic paintings and reproduced in black and white in many 1920s school rooms and Odhams press type text books Queen Elizabeth and King James meet in Whitehall Palace each winking at the other with a knowingly smile, aware of each others secret
well the truth is James V1 was your typical obnoxious Stuart and Elizabeth I was Boleyn's Daughter both descended from Henry VII
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