Shakespeare as State Secret

Numerous aspects of the Shakespeare authorship issue could raise it to the level of state interest, e.g., meaning the State might still be involved in keeping what happened secret. Half a millennium may seem like a long time in the United States, but in Europe not so much. What happened so long ago still resonates strongly among current inhabitants. As possibly examples of what might drive States to take a hand in the Shakespeare authorship game:

• Royal scandal: depending on the degree of messiness of what exactly happened in Elizabeth's court, things perhaps even worse than we know about, this could have a negative impact on the view of English royalty today. Would the English people (half of which already wish to) decide to abolish the royalty once and for all?
  
• Royal succession: Has succession been properly done? Should all of royal/English history be rewritten? How badly would this reflect on the current State?
  
• Church battle: King Henry VIII, Elizabeth's father, abolished ties with the Vatican and established the national English church (with himself at it's head). From then on to practice Catholicism was heretical throughout the land. All this happened in Elizabeth's court not too long after the changeover, meaning the battle is still quite fresh. Many of the players are regarded as aligned, Catholic or Protestant, leading to friction (and death) all around--Mary, Queen of Scots being a major example. De Vere was regarded as being part of the fight by many, as were others. All of this could play out today, with both the English State and the Vatican (which had an army in those days).
  
• Espionage/spies: William Cecil, Elizabeth's chief administrator, was a cloak-and-dagger type, using the English 'secret service' to work his ends. To what extent is this the predecessor to modern-day British intelligence, how sensitive are these early beginnings today? Christopher Marlowe, a candidate for Shakespeare authorship, is widely regarded as an actual spy. How many of these lords and earls travelling abroad were on State business? The dedication page to the Sonnets might derive from (or be written to) secret service coders.
  

  ". . it was the Tudor era’s coding method. Jerome Cardan . . invented the system, hence the name for the rectangle, Cardano Grille."

  WJ Ray from Rollett in Reverse on diplomatic use of the code seemingly used for the Sonnet dedication
  

  “. . the usual formula made use of in the case of secret service money.”

  B. M. Ward's take on language used in granting De Vere an annuity by Elizabeth
  
• Literary treasure/keeper of language: Shakespeare is regarded as a national treasure, not only the greatest writer in the English language ever, but also the creator/recorder of what would become the contemporary English we now speak. He invented many of the words that now have wide currency. The Shakespeare Industry, visitors to Stratford, etc. accounts for huge revenues. This makes his 'provenance' worth protecting for the State.
  

  'He is praised not only as the greatest writer in English but as “the greatest man who ever lived” by Lytton Strachey and as “the most influential man in history” by one of his contemporary biographers. For Thomas Carlyle Shakespeare was a “Saint of poetry”, for Henry Melville “a kind of deity”.'

  Rodney Croome
  
• Elizabeth: the first major female monarch of England (we try to forget Bloody Mary), her name is on the Elizabethan Era which has given us so much--including Shakespeare itself. How bad would it be for the English people, and for the reputation of England, to discover all manner of nastiness about the Virgin Queen?
  

For these reasons, and perhaps a few others, states might be involved in keeping the true nature of Shakespeare authorship secret.