A manuscript written by Queen Elizabeth I has been discovered after lying unnoticed for more than a century, the BBC reports.
A literary historian from the University of East Anglia made the startling find in Lambeth Palace Library in London.
He turned detective to piece together a series of clues to establish that the queen was the author of the writings.
The work is a translation of a book in which the Roman historian Tacitus wrote of the benefits of monarchical rule.
It was while searching in the library for translations of Tacitus that Dr John-Mark Philo found the mysterious 42-page manuscript.
He established it was written on a very specific kind of paper, which had “gained special prominence” in the Tudor Court in the 1590s.
