Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

The Time and the Opportunity

3 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

The Time and the Opportunity

(a) The time at which the change was or could have been effected.

The Time and the Opportunity: Elizabeth

After Elizabeth had been legitimised, she became one of the pieces in the gigantic game of chess on which Henry had embarked. Despite the…

The Time and the Opportunity: Catherine

At the time of her first letter to the new Queen, Catherine (Parr), she was just a trifle under ten years of age and a well-grown child…

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