Shanette, Heather: - Heather Shanette has an M.Phil in Tudor History from Bangor University, Wales, where she spent a decade as a postgraduate researcher and occasional teacher. She is an expert on the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I and for a quarter of a century has been the webmistress of elizabethi.org, a website dedicated to the Tudor Queen that has helped millions of people around the world learn about her extraordinary life.