The 2011 film “Anonymous” is generally viewed favorably by Oxfordians… until the end. That’s when the Prince Tudor Theory is introduced into the storyline and that’s when Oxfordians become bitterly divided.
As I have stated before, I am agnostic on the Prince Tudor Theory. I can’t deny it would very neatly explain an awful lot, so that’s extremely tempting, but neither can I deny that there are contemporaneous accounts which refute the theory.
This website is an emphatic “NO” on all things Prince Tudor. It is also an emphatic “YES” on whether or not Queen Elizabeth really was “The Virgin Queen.”
Given what the historical records tells us about Robert Dudley, this seems unlikely, so the blog owner’s emphatic certainty on this matter, in my humble opinion, gives rise to doubts about his emphatic certainty on the other matter as well. That and his almost total reliance on the documentary record to prove his thesis. Of course there wouldn’t be documents proving Elizabeth mothered a child! Just as there wouldn’t be documents proving Edward de Vere is Shakespeare. We simply must look at the total record and make reasoned judgements.
Anyway, there’s more I could say about all this, but I’ll save it for another blog post on another day. I just wanted to be sure to recommend this site on The Prince Tudor theory.
