Elizabeth I’s Iconic White Makeup: The Underlying Dark Truth

Published on 08/26/2021
ADVERTISEMENT

Lady Sidney

Lady Sidney was said to have been so badly affected by smallpox that her own husband was appalled by her appearance.  “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

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT