Anonymous

After his father's death, the teenage Oxford goes to live with William Cecil, the queen's top advisor, where he gets the best tutors but clashes with Cecil's young son Robert. Oxford kills a servant by stabbing him through an arras (as in Hamlet, but totally unlike how the real Oxford killed a servant), and in exchange for saving him from the gallows, William Cecil forces Oxford to marry his daughter Anne, who is depicted as a humorless Puritan shrew. After returning from a European tour, Oxford seduces Queen Elizabeth (who acts like a giddy schoolgirl in his presence), and is initially not told when she becomes pregnant with his child, though he eventually finds out. Several years later, Oxford impregnates his mistress Anne Vavasour (at least I assume that's who it was supposed to be) and is thrown in the Tower of London. The evil hunchback Robert Cecil visits him there, saying that he's free to go, but he is banished from the Court and can never see the queen again. Oxford begs Cecil to at least tell him the name of the son he had with the queen, and Cecil tells him that it's the earl of Southampton. Upon being released from the Tower, Oxford goes and introduces himself to the eight-year-old Southampton, saying "we can be earls together."