> That didn't happen because Oxford was never the son of John De Vere.
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> Art will blow a gasket but Oxford was the son of Elizabeth and
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> her constant harasser the Lord High Admiral Sir Thomas Seymour.
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> I had to laugh when I saw all the "descendants" of De Vere seated
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> in a place of distinction at the opening of Parliament, none of them
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> direct decendants of De Vere because Oxford was not of the
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> De Vere bloodline, although that didn't matter because Oxford and his
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> younger brother Francis Bacon were direct descendants of
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> Richard II and Richard III, not to speak of more Henries than
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> you could count on your fingers. I mean, these boys were
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> royal.
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> Elizabeth did not love her sexual harasser, in fact she
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> signed the warrant for his execution, this Princess had grit.
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> Seymour spent some time in The Tower, then one day the
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> jailers came to get him to take him to the block. Seymour
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> took one look at the executioner holding an axe, grabbed the
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> axe and fought off his captors until, exhausted, he fell in his
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> own slippery blood on the floor and his jailers immediately
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> dragged him to the block, the axe fell, so there's another
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> episode in Elizabethan history.
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