Bard the Love Child of Queen Elizabeth, claims
writer.
Paul Streitz, an American author of plays and musicals
makes the sensational claim that Elizabeth-I gave birth to
several children contrary to prevalent myth of the Virgin
Queen.
The new book by Streitz, already published in America,
makes the most scandalous suggestion that Shakespeare was
the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth-I.
Streitz argues that the first child of the queen born
secretly in 1548 was raised as Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of
Oxford, who is one of the main claimants to the famous name
of Shakespeare.
The sensational revelation, the American
writer argued,
would render the position of academics in a quandary as
they had accepted the Tudorian propaganda creating the myth
of the virgin Queen.
So far, the biographers readily acknowledged that there was
a sort of romance between the teenaged Elizabeth and an
ambitious courtier named Thomas Seymour. But there was
nothing beyond that claimed some. The staff, however, told
stories which described details of her paramour visiting
her chamber in a state of impropriety.
Streitz further continues with his story by narrating that
after the reported romance Elizabeth disappeared for some
time from the public eye and gave birth to the child. There
are records of doctors visiting her much later in 1548.
Rumours galore were doing the rounds during this period of
her disappearance. It assumed such proportions that she had
to condemn the rumours of her lascivious behaviour.
The author said that she had protested too much without
actually denying the rumours. What she said instead was
that the rumours were harmful to the King’s majesty.
The child was placed in a safe home with nobleman John de
Vere, the 16th Earl of Oxford who was compelled to raise
the child as Edward de Vere. The child was eventually
educated properly and inherited the nobleman as the 17th
Earl of Oxford. Streitz argues that the world famous bard
knew his origins and reflected them in works such as Hamlet
and the Sonnets.