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Elizabeth I – A Life In Portraits.
Although lots of portraits exist of Elizabeth, she did not pose for many of them. Perhaps she was a little vain – if she disliked a particular picture she would have it destroyed.
Her Secretary of State, Robert Cecil, an astute diplomat, worded it carefully….”Many painters have done portraits of the Queen but none has sufficiently shown her looks or charms. Therefore Her Majesty commands all manner of persons to stop doing portraits of her until a clever painter has finished one which all other painters can copy.
Her Majesty, in the meantime, forbids the showing of any portraits which are ugly until they are improved.”
So what did she really look like? Quotes from visitors to her Court can perhaps shed some light.
In her Twenty-Second Year:
“Her figure and face are very handsome; she has such an air of dignified majesty that no-one could ever doubt that she is a queen”
In her Twenty-Fourth Year:
