Secrets of the Virgin Queen - Part 2
In Secrets of the Virgin Queen – Part 1 , I cover the evidence that Queen Elizabeth I of England – popularly known as the Virgin Queen – wasn’t actually a virgin, and had an illegitimate son by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester – namely, Arthur Dudley. In this post, I will cover how famous philosopher Sir Francis Bacon , Viscount St Alban was not the biological son of his official parents – Lord Nicholas and Lady Anne Bacon ( nee Cooke) – and quite likely the biological son of Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley. All this information is taken from http://sirbacon.org/links/parentage.htm . Here is a quote from the 1895 edition of the 16th volume of the Dictionary of National Biography : “Whatever were the Queen’s relations with Dudley before his wife’s death, they became closer after. It was reported that she was formally betrothed to him, and that she had secretly married him in Lord Pembroke’s house, and that she was a mother already.” “In 15...