It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History

by Jennifer Wright

because every single picture of women from this period looks the same. Seemingly every woman had a tiny mouth, no eyelashes, and a receding hairline. (That hairline wasn’t necessarily due to hair loss, because women plucked back their hairlines and eyelashes. Beauty rituals of the sixteenth century are another story for another excellent book.) To visualize the people in this story properly, you could try playing a game where you imagine them as the actors in The Tudors, but that’s not a good plan because on The Tudors even the allegedly deformed people look the way you or I would appear on the best day of our lives with a team of hair and makeup professionals standing by. So it’s best if you cast everyone in the story of Henry VIII as someone you know. Just make Catherine someone unattractive whom you don’t like very much. That is exactly what Catherine of Aragon looked like. You are very good at imagining historical characters.

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