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So, there's apparently an age-old conspiracy theory that Queen Elizabeth was actually a man in drag, and the real Elizabeth died at about 10 years of age in a town called Bisley (where she was sent from London to avoid the plague). From there the dead Elizabeth was replaced by her nurse with a local boy who went on to become a literal drag queen and Henry VIII didn't notice.

The whole idea's absurd and I'm almost certainly sure it didn't happen, but it made me think- what if Elizabeth did actually die at Bisley for whatever reason? I doubt an impostor will take her place, but her nurse will probably get quite the beheading from Henry.

What happens in a world where Elizabeth doesn't make it to adulthood? Who gets the English throne?
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