There is speculation that Francis Bacon is the “Prince Tudor” and is the son of Edward de Vere and Elizabeth.
Royal Birth
Francis Bacon’s intellectual prowess was so respected, and his political philosophies so similar to the themes of William Shakespeare that is has been theorized that he is the author of Shakespeare’s work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baconian_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship
Even mainstream Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness, wrote that “Had the plays come down to us anonymously – had the labour of discovering the author been imposed upon future generations – we could have found no one of that day but Francis Bacon to whom to assign the crown. In this case it would have been resting now upon his head by almost common consent

In fact Shakespeare’s The Tempest, a tale of sailors blown of course to a far away island to the west bears striking similarities for Bacon’s famous unfinished work The New Atlantis.
Francis Bacon’s God
…contends that Bacon is responsible for transmuting Christian hope for spiritual salvation into a secular dream of material comfort and argues that the Christianity of Bensalem is actually a “fundamental assault upon, transformation of and ultimate displacement of Christianity.” Denise Albanese asserts that Bensalemite Christianity “first serves as yet another instance of reverse colonialism, with the natives’ conversion already an accomplished fact” and as the “code for an intellectual imperialism.”
Bacon uses this primordial history to portray a golden age that has been virtually lost from memory; as a result, humanity has been left with a truncated account of its past achievements. Bacon refers to an ancient wisdom that has been lost and replaced by impotent, inferior philosophies. Yet the purpose of the Platonic myth in “New Atlantis” is to instill hope that this knowledge can be recovered and the state of civilizational excellence restored.
Bacon was a transformer, without a doubt. Some say he cleverly used Biblical themes in New Atlantis to plant themes of the enlightenment and removed God from his position of primacy. The the main city of the New Atlantis was Bensalem, which translate to Son of Peace or Son of Submission. Note that 40 days the period of time the characters remain in Salomon’s Stranger House in Bacon’s New Atlantis. 40 is indeed very Biblical.
- Sailors can stay 40 days in Stranger House. 40 Days is clearly a Biblical reference, and is generally a journey or a period of transformation. Many times a tribulation.
- Noah
- Moses
- Jesus – exile in the desert with temptation by Satan, time to teach disciples.
There are many indications that Bacon was deeply religious and believed that a covenant with God should be entered, and that transformation would create a nation guided by God. There is an interesting twist here, one that is grounded in Reformation reform: the New Atlantis is the result of direct dispensation from God, for all inhabitants, and the failed understanding of past religious interpretation is set aside for a new relationship with God.