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Who Wrote Elizabeth I's Most Scathing Letters? New Research Suggests the Tudor Queen's Male Secretaries Revised Her Correspondence to Emphasize Her Temper

smithsonianmag.com/history/who-wrote-elizabeth-is-most-scathing-letters-new-research-suggests-the-tudor-queens-male-secretaries-revised-her-correspondence-to-emphasize-her-temper-180989565

Elizabeth I's famous fury on paper often had a ghostwriter. A study of more than 500 letters finds her secretaries didn't just tone down her emotions, as expected, but actively wrote and sharpened them in messages to Mary, Queen of Scots, and James VI.

— via Smithsonian — History

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