While Elizabeth looks like she is holding clear plastic tubing, possibly to water the garden of flowers on her gown, it is widely acknowledged this item would have been painted with all the colours of the rainbow. So she is holding a rainbow in her hand, which I believe is actually quite a powerful statement….
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Tudor Society Presentation
I’m very excited to announce the presentation I completed with my co-researcher Ashley Risk is now live on the The Tudor Society website. We spent a considerable amount of time during Covid lockdowns researching the miniature Tudor portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger believed to be Henry VIII’s fifth wife Catherine Howard. Our research looks…