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 Tradition

2 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

The Tradition

The Tradition is that the little Princess Elizabeth, during her childhood, was sent away with her governess for change of air to Bisley…

The Tradition: Elizabeth

Major Martin Hume writes in his Courtships of Queen Elizabeth: "Elizabeth was only three when her mother's fall removed her from the line…

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