The Dark Truth Behind Elizabeth I’s Famous White Makeup

Published on 02/10/2022
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Lady Sidney

Lady Sidney’s appearance was believed to have been so adversely altered by smallpox that her own husband was shocked. “I left her a full fair lady in mine eye at least the fairest, and when I returned I found her as fowl a lady as the smallpox could make her,” Henry Sidney wrote in his memoirs of his wife.

Lady Sidney

Lady Sidney

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