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Imposter queen
One of the more ridiculous historical conspiracy theories was that Queen Elizabeth I was a man. Here's how the theory came about ... Although she ruled England for 44 years between 1558 and 1603 she never married. The Queen refused all offers of matrimony, hence her nickname of
the Virgin Queen.
Mental Floss explains: "Her stance led some observers — including Dracula author Bram Stoker — to suspect she may have been a man. Stoker once visited the town of Bisley in the Cotswolds, where a May Day celebration involved a boy dressing as the May Queen in Elizabethan clothes.
"Intrigued by the ceremony, Stoker discovered a fantastic tale — that the queen-to-be had visited Bisley in her youth to escape the plague, got sick, and died. Knowing her father, King Henry VIII, had a famous temper, the governess found a boy who resembled her charge and disguised him as Elizabeth when the king, who apparently could not readily identify his own daughter, came to visit.
"The deception was never discovered, and the unknown boy grew to rule England, disguising his masculine features with wigs, heavy make-up, and neck coverings. While Stoker popularised the story in the early 1900s, it had appeared during Elizabeth's reign, possibly as a way for male subjects to cope with the idea of having a female ruler."
