The Saint Cecilia Singers - the very highly-regarded chamber choir of Gloucester cathedral - are in Bisley this coming weekend to perform ‘The Bisley Boy'.
For the uninitiated, apocryphal local legend has it that the ‘virgin queen', Elizabeth I, was actually a man from Bisley, having as a child replaced the-then nine year old Princess Elizabeth after she drowned in a well at Overcourt House. There is some grounding in fact: in 1542 she was indeed staying at Overcourt, her father Henry VIII having ordered that she be removed to the countryside to escape an outbreak of plague in London. Fearful of Henry's wrath at the death of his daughter, her guardians found a small boy from Bisley who could be passed off as the young Elizabeth, and Henry never noticed. The legend has been dramatised in music and song and will be staged at All Saints Church at 7.30pm on Saturday May 11. Tickets are available priced £20 (admission is free for under-16s) via this link or by cash and card on the day.
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