The proof the Virgin Queen had a secret love child? A new TV documentary reveals evidence that could shatter one of the enduring myths about the British monarchy ...

The Daily Mail (London, England) | June 14, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: SARAH CHALMERS

UNKEMPT and exhausted, 800 miles from England the shipwrecked young man prepared to meet his interrogators in a Madrid courtroom one June day in 1587.

Suspected of spying after his ship ran aground just days earlier in the Bay of Biscay, the unshaven sailor feared for his life. But it was not the threat of incarceration that troubled him, but the repercussions of the secret he was about to reveal.

Asked to identify himself, he replied: 'I am the bastard son of Queen Elizabeth of England and her lover Robert Dudley.' At the ...

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