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So let's get right into it. Elizabethan conspiracy theories and

tutor conspiracy theories. Today we're talking about whether or not Elizabeth had secret children

and maybe whether one of them was Shakespeare. So I geek out on conspiracy theories. Like I'm, I love reading a good

conspiracy theory and thinking about it and evaluating it. And there are a lot of Tudor conspiracy theories.

And so I decided to like make like a little mini series. Once a week, I'm going to like break down one of these conspiracy theories about

the Tudors and the Elizabethan. I just said the word conspiracy theories like six times in a row

and now it sounds really weird in my head. You know that when you say a word too often and it

starts to sound like weird. Like did I say that right anyway, that's what we're going to talk about today.

All right.

What if I told you that Queen Elizabeth I first, history's virgin queen, was secretly a mother,

that she had not just one, but multiple secret children hidden away in noble families

and that one of them was...

Drum roll, Francis Bacon.

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