In Raymond Lamont-Browns’s book “How Fat was Henry VIII, he mentions the story that Robert Dudley and Elizabeth actually had a son together-named Arthur and when he was 5 years old was sent to Kat Ashley’s husband to be educated! Do you think most historians think this story is actually plausible, since Elizabeth was know at the “Virgin Queen”?

I have actually written an article on the Arthur Dudley myth - see https://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-arthur-dudley-myth/3298/ - Arthur definitely existed but most historians do not believe that he was the illegitimate son of Elizabeth and Robert Dudley. One theory, put forward by Sarah Gristwood, is that he may have been an English agent. She points out that Walsingham made good use of “agents provocateurs”, sending them undercover to gather information on foreign enemies, and that this may explain why Arthur Dudley suddenly disappears from history, perhaps he escaped and resumed his own identity.
You can read the full story in my artciel.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE QUESTIONS

Related posts:

The Arthur Dudley Myth Were Elizabeth and Robert Dudley really lovers? 8 September 1560 – The Death of Amy Dudley, wife of Robert Dudley Robert Dudley Robert Dudley Did Robert Dudley Murder Amy Robsart? The Marriage of Robert Dudley and Amy Robsart Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley Why did Elizabeth hate Lettice so much? I know a big part of it was her marriage to Robert Dudley but what was her reasoning for disliking her before the marriage? Did she ever say? I’ve read that it was because she was jealous of Lettice’s looks. What year is it when Queen Elizabeth I is in her teen years Was Elizabeth I a virgin? Please forgive my morbid curiousity, but in the 500 years since the death of Queen Elizabeth I has her tomb ever been opened or the body examined ? I’d like to know how she was dressed , and if any jewells were burried with her ? Thank-you