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30 Unforeseen Facts About Anne Boleyn

Trista February 11, 2019 14 min
Tudor period - House of Tudor

14. Anne Was Described as Unattractive

Anne Boleyn, drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1534-35. British Museum, London. Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum/ Britannica.

After her execution, a Catholic biographer described the Protestant queen as having polydactyly, a condition in which someone has an extra finger. He also claimed that she had a protruding tooth and was quite unattractive. However, he never saw the queen, and his claims were probably anti-Protestant propaganda.

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