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That ‘William Shakespeare’ was the author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and many other much-loved plays is the greatest deception in literary history. Shakespeare Revolutionized tells the fascinating story of how the identity of the real author – Edward de Vere, the highest ranking earl in Queen Elizabeth’s c....

Hedingham Castle, with its imposing 900-year-old Norman Keep, is the birthplace of Edward de Vere. During recent lockdown projects around the Estate, some ancient foundations and brickwork have been uncovered, near the bottom of the bailey of the Keep, of what was the Tudor Castle, a slightly later red brick building b....

DVS member David Shakespeare has uploaded to his own YouTube channel a fascinating exploration of the ‘Harleian Miniature’ portrait of ‘Shakespeare’, housed in the Portland collection at Welbeck Abbey along with the authenticated well-known ‘Welbeck’ portrait of Edward de Vere. David....

One of the earliest known maps of Elizabethan London during the time of ‘Shakespeare’ has been found during a house clearance. Printed in 1572, it shows two ‘bear bayting’ theatres on the south bank of the Thames, close to today’s Globe Theatre. See full article in the Daily Mail HERE. The....

The ‘Hedingham Castle Estate Elizabethan Gold Ring’, possibly owned by Edward de Vere, was sold by Timeline Auctions for £46,000 in February 2021. The ring was found in December 2018 by a metal detectorist near the River Colne on land owned by the de Vere family from the time of the Norman battle for  Bri....

The DVS joins the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition and many others in the UK and across the world in mourning the loss of HRH Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh — and draws the attention of members to Prince Philip’s Shakespeare Authorship Doubts as expressed to Sir Stanley Wells and reported in an article in the Dail....