In September 1576 Francis Bacon’s idyllic life exploded. His royal mother, in front of her courtiers, disclosed their relationship, cursed his nativity and barred him from succession, “I bar from succession forevermore / My best beloved royal first born!”
From then on, Bacon was plunged into a world of scandal and jealousy, intrigue and treachery until his supposed death in 1626. So, risking his life and always fearing discovery, he hid his true story in the Shakespeare plays.
The accomplishments of Shakespeare stagger the mind and exceed the imagination. Yet, this child prodigy narrowly escaped murder at the time of his birth. No gentle words could soothe and move the vain and strong mind of his mother who resented producing an heir. At the time of his birth, his maddened mother Queen Elizabeth I cried, “Kill, kill” so opposed was she to his coming.
Fearing for his safety, her childhood friend Lady Anne Bacon begged the Queen to take the unfortunate babe home and rear him as her own. His arrival preceded the birth of her stillborn baby, and none were ever the wiser until . . .
Sir Francis Bacon wrote not only the Shakespeare plays and sonnets but also nearly every noteworthy work of literature published during his lifetime. He wrote under names such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson. Cipher reveals Bacon published the brilliant literature of that era under the names of Robert Burton, Edmund Spenser, Robert Greene, George Peele and more. He had over 100 masks, but only a select few knew his great secret.