It Seems Queen Elizabeth I Did Not Write All Her Letters — Particularly The Furious Ones

A researcher has analyzed more than 500 of her “scribal letters” — correspondence from the queen but in the handwriting of her secretaries, notably principal royal secretary Francis Walsingham — and found that they sometimes altered the queen’s own language for strategic reasons, including to make her appear even angrier than she was. – Smithsonian Magazine

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