I can prove that 'William Shakespeare' is buried in Westminster Abbey – scholar

Alexander Waugh says secret clues confirm that author of world-famous plays was Edward de Vere, who lies in Poet’s Corner

William Shakespeare was in fact Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, and is buried in Westminster Abbey, not the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, according to a scholar who is the grandson of the novelist Evelyn Waugh.

Alexander Waugh says he has deciphered encryptions in the title and dedication pages of Aspley’s edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets of 1609 that reveal the bard’s final resting place.

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