It is known that Elizabeth was sent away at the age of ten to a village called Bisley to avoid an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in London. Unfortunately, an unknown illness soon caught Elizabeth in its clutches and she died.
Soon after, it was announced to the household that King Henry VIII would arrive in Bisley in the near future and would visit his daughter.
Elizabeth’s nurse panicked. The nurse came up with a bold plan: bury Elizabeth secretly and find a local girl who closely resembled Elizabeth and present the imposter to the king as his daughter.
She quickly searched Bisley for a ten-year-old girl with fair complexion and, most importantly, red hair similar to Elizabeth’s. But none were found. But the nurse did find an effeminate young boy who looked somewhat like the dead royal. She dressed the boy in Elizabeth’s clothing and added a wig and prayed that the king wouldn’t notice any difference.
Some serious historians believed this story was true. They based their conclusion on a variety of facts:
The grown Elizabeth never consented to marriage, despite legitimate offers.
-A perceived stark difference in the form and content of letters she wrote before and after her stay in Bisley.
-She wore wigs at any occasion where she would be seen.
-She would only be seen by carefully selected doctors and would thus suffer the effects of an illness for long periods of time until one of her few trusted physicians could attend to her.
-A nobleman had once written regarding Elizabeth that “for a certain reason which they have recently given me, I understand that she will not bear children”
-Elizabeth’s clear directive not to have an autopsy done on her after she died.
-The report from a cleric of his discovery of a coffin in Bisley in the 1800s which contained the skeleton of a young girl dressed in clothes typical of the Renaissance upper-classes.
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