{"id":32660,"date":"2024-01-18T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=256719"},"modified":"2024-01-18T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:12:46","slug":"conspiracy-was-elizabeth-i-a-man","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/conspiracy-was-elizabeth-i-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy: was Elizabeth I a man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tudor historian Tracy Borman explores the conspiracy theory that the future Elizabeth I had been replaced by a young boy in her childhood <\/p>

By Rob Attar\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 11:40 AM<\/p>

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In her most famous speech, delivered on 9 August 1588, Queen Elizabeth I declared that she had the \u201cheart and stomach of a king\u201d. Was that just rhetoric? Or could England\u2019s iconic Tudor queen actually have been a man masquerading as a woman? In this new episode of Conspiracy, Tudor historian Tracy Borman speaks to Rob Attar about the bizarre \u2018Bisley Boy\u2019 conspiracy theory that was popularised by none other than Dracula author Bram Stoker.<\/p>\n

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