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Recently, the attribution of " Oriana " to Elizabeth has come into question.

Evidence has been presented that " Oriana " actually refers to Anna of Denmark, who would become Queen of England alongside James VI of Scotland ( later James I of England ) in an apparently failed early attempt to remove Elizabeth in order to restore England to Catholicism.

In his book ' The English Madrigalists ', Edmund Fellowes, one of the leading madrigal scholars declares this theory to be false.