Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth

by Charles Beauclerk

Book Overview

It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most-enduring works of literature in the English language, perhaps in any language. Who was the man behind Hamlet? What passion... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802119409
• ISBN13: 9780802119407
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Literary Landmark

Dear Mr. Beauclerk: Congratulations on your magnificent book, Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom. It will forever change the study of Shakespeare and Elizabethan history. The book is a sterling act of courage for an author, your editors and your publisher Grove Press. The book forever throws open the door because it is "The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth." Your book will provoke hysteria among the academics and historians. Nevertheless, for decades, if not centuries, they have remained ossified behind the myth of the Virgin Queen and the humble Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon. Your book is an unvarnished telling of dramatic, overwhelming and sometimes repellant truths. First, that Queen Elizabeth was no Virgin Queen but had a child with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (one of her several children), who was raised as Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. As you clearly indicate, that explains the meaning of the dedication of Venus and Adonis to the young earl by "William Shakespeare." Second, you give more than enough evidence to convince anyone that Edward de Vere was the hidden child of Queen Elizabeth, born in 1548. Then, you seem to equivocate on the matter. "If Elizabeth did give birth, it most likely was in September (1548), or "for if Oxford was a changeling, as some have claimed, born up to eighteen months earlier." My book, Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford Institute Press, 2001), states that Oxford was born on July 21, 1548 in Cheshunt, England. His putative father, John de Vere, was forced into a marriage with, Margery Golding, at Belchamp, on August 1, 1548. Shortly, thereafter, Elizabeth writes a note to William Cecil calling him her "friend." The evidence is overwhelming that the changeling was placed in the household of John de Vere, and raised as Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. My findings strongly support your central conclusions. Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I Further, after Elizabeth became Queen she attended the commencements of the young Oxford from Cambridge in August 1564 and Oxford in 1566. Surely, these were signs of maternal affection for her son. However, if both points are true, then that brings the world to the most uncomfortable conclusion that Queen Elizabeth I had an incestuous relationship with her son. As difficult as that conclusion is, it remains the truth. Neither you nor anyone else is responsible for justifying or explaining the truth, only for telling such. Finally, if Elizabeth and Oxford had a child, are there descendants down to the present day? My work clearly shows that there is a legitimate Tudor line down to the present and therefore a Tudor pretender to the throne. Small details. Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom is a literary landmark. With sincere appreciation, Paul Streitz

New Evidence Piles Up That Oxford Was Shakespeare

3/26/10 Having earlier reviewed Paul Streitz's magnificent book, Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford Institute Press, 2001) which postulated that Elizabeth I, far from being the Virgin Queen, actually had several children, including the man who became the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, a new vital arrival to this seminal work further confirms its contentions. Now, in a new book just published on April 1, 2010, , Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom, by an English writer, Charles Beauclerk, issued by the Grove Press, which Streitz in his letter to Mr. Beauclerk, describes as a book that "will forever change the study of Shakespeare and Elizabethan history." What this important new book adds to the substantive Streitz legacy is its well documented special insights as to WHY Oxford wanted to keep his nom de plume so secret! Streitz comments, Beauclerk's "book will provoke hysteria among the academics and historians. Nevertheless, for decades, if not centuries, they have remained ossified behind the myth of the Virgin Queen and the humble Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon. Your book is an unvarnished telling of dramatic, overwhelming and sometimes repellant truths." What are these pregnant truths? Streitz again: "First, that Queen Elizabeth was no Virgin Queen but had a child with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (one of her several children), who was raised as Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. As you clearly indicate, that explains the meaning of the dedication of Venus and Adonis to the young earl by"William Shakespeare." Second, you give more than enough evidence to convince anyone that Edward de Vere was the hidden child of Queen Elizabeth, born in 1548." Small wonder that these arrogant, secretive Tudor Royals, who could act with unrestrained ruthlessness to cover up the truth, did not let what would have been this incestuous revelation out of the bag. The powerful facts so clearly reflected in the total Shakespearian oeuvre prove again how the Bard of Avon would never have known what only an insider in the Royal Family knew and gotten away with writings that Oxford wrote. This book and many others have long slammed the door on Avon's authorship for literary giants like Walt Whitman, Clements, etc. Streitz again enlightens, "After Elizabeth became Queen she attended the commencements of the young Oxford from Cambridge in August 1564 and Oxford in 1566. Surely, these were signs of maternal affection for her son." But that incestuous relationship with her son really is a clincher on the secrecy question, isn't it?? Streitz raises another interesting idea. "If Elizabeth and Oxford had a child, are there descendants down to the present day? My work clearly shows that there is a legitimate Tudor line down to the present and therefore a Tudor pretender to the throne." This book will likely prove a creator of discord for the stuffed shirts in the academic literati who have so long cited the Bumpkin from Avon as the author