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Since the rumor of the Bisley Boy (by Bram Stoker, no less) - that Elizabeth was replaced before puberty by a boy when she suddenly died and said boy was unlikely to have carried out the farce forever are highly unlikely, what if the rumor that she had a crush on Thomas Seymour and acted on it - after she went to live with Katheryn Parr (as the Queen herself signed it) before the birth of Mary Seymour. Elizabeth was hurriedly sent away, supposedly after Katheryn caught the pair in an embrace. I recently finished "Cold Case: Reopened, The Secret of the Virgin Queen" by Mark Garber. He proposes that either about the time of Katheryn's pregnancy, Elizabeth was found to be with child by Seymour as well and this was the reason she was rushed off to Cheshunt rather than one of her (liz's) own homes. In Cheshunt, overseen by Kat Ashley's sister and brother-in-law, access to the no longer virginal Elizabeth could be tightly controlled.

What if: she did become pregnant by Seymor while under the 'supervision' of Katheryn Parr and was sent away? And it became public knowledge because Sir Antony Denny felt his responsibility to the King overrode that to his wife's sister' lax supervision of the girl?
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