Very interesting links Terry I found ancestors! I also wanted to comment about Anne Boleyn. I think her nose was not a problem apparently she had great charm or sex appeal see below:
Cavendish's Life of Wolsey.
) "There was at this time presented to the eye of the court the rare and admyrable bewtie of the fresh and yonge Lady Anne Bolein, to be attendichte upon the Queene. In this noble imp the graces of nature, graced by gracious education, seemed even at the first to have promised blis unto hereafter times ; she was taken at that time to have a bewtie not so whitly clcere and fresh, above al we may esteeme, which appeared much more excellent by her favour passinge sweete and chearful, and thes both also increased by her noble presence of shape and/a«-on, representing both mildness and majesty, more than can be exprest. Ther was found indeede upon the side of her naile upon one of her fingers some little showe of a naile, which yet was so small, by the report of those that have seen her, as the icorkmaister seemed to leave it an occasion of greater grace to her hand, which, with the tip of one of her other fingers, might be and was usually by her hidden, without any least blemish to it. Likewise ther wer said to be upon certin parts of her boddy small moles, incident to the clearest complections; and certainly both thes were none other than might more stain their writings, with note of malice, than have catch at such light moles in so bright beams of bewtie, than in any part shaddow it, as may right wel appeare by many arguments, but chiefly by the choice and exquisite
Trained in the court of France, Anne had learned to improve her person by all those embellishments of dress, which, under the direction of good taste, render art so powerful an auxiliary. she danced like a nymph, and not only touched the lute and virginal with a masterly hand, but accompanied them with her voice in a strain of delicious melody. To these brilliant accomplishments she added an exquisite winningness and propriety of manners, not less rare, and even more seducing than beauty; insomuch, as Lord Herbert says,* that " when she composed her hands to play and her voice to sing, it was joined with that sweetness of countenance that three harmonies concurred: likewise when she danced, her rare proportions carried themselves into all the graces that belong either to rest or motion; briefly, it seems, the most attractive perfections were eminent in her."
* Lord Herbert appears to have derived his account of Anne Boleyn from Sir John Russell, the first Earl of Bedford,—on whose authority he informs us, that Jane Seymour was the more majestic, but Anne Boleyn the more lovely ; that love threatened in the eyes of Jane, but laughed in those of Anne; that the former, the richer she was dressed, the fairer she appeared, but that the other never looked so fair as when she was plainly dressed. The same connoisseur adds, "though Queen Catherine, in her younger days, was, for beauty and dignity, not often to be paralleled."
Paintings of the time perhaps do not do justice although besides the accomplishments and arts She learned at the French Court She had beautiful eyes.
