The Saint Cecilia Singers will perform The Bisley Boy at All Saints Church, Bisley, on Saturday, May 11.

The legend of 'The Bisley Boy' goes like this: around 1544 whilst visiting Overcourt in Bisley, the young Princess Elizabeth rapidly fell ill and died. In the ensuing panic, a little red-headed Bisley boy was found to take her place.

300 years later, the skeleton of a young girl dressed in a rich Tudor gown was uncovered in a stone coffin beneath the window of the room where Princess Elizabeth was said to have stayed. 

The discovery was told to Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, who went on to research the story and write about it in his book, Famous Imposters.

In her most famous speech, delivered on 9 August 1588, Queen Elizabeth I declared that she had the "heart and stomach of a king". Was that just rhetoric? Or could England's iconic Tudor queen have actually been a man masquerading as a woman?

The Saint Cecilia Singers with narrator Colin Hassall explore the intriguing tale in words and music, accompanied by viols.

The programme will include Tudor music played at Elizabeth's court and music inspired by the flowering of arts and literature in the Elizabethan Renaissance - plus one or two surprises.

Tickets cost £20 from the Saint Cecilia Singers website. Proceeds from the concert will support All Saints Church, Bisley.

The Saint Cecilia Singers is Gloucester Cathedral's chamber choir - an auditioned choir of around 28 enthusiastic and gifted amateur and semi-professional singers. It performs up to six concerts per year including an annual Christmas concert at Gloucester Cathedral as well as taking part in the Cathedral Choirs Days and occasional Evensongs.