Jane Lapotaire as 3 English Queens

 

As  Eleanor of Aquitaine, with Brian Cox as Henry II, in 'The Devil's Crown' (1978)

 

As Mary Tudor in 'Lady Jane' (1986)

 

 

As Katherine of Aragon, with Paul Jesson as the King, and Ian Hogg as Cardinal Wolsey in 'Henry VIII', Royal Shakespeare Company (1998)

Her other regal roles include playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in 'Edward the Seventh' (1975), and appearing as Princess Kuragin in 'Downton Abbey' (2014).

 

"Like pub signs"?

 British art dealer Christopher Foley was once quoted as saying, "A great number of contemporary portraits of Elizabeth I look like pub signs".

Looking at this example (from Westwood Manor in Wiltshire), he was quite right!

 

On the set of 'Anne of the Thousand Days'.

 

 Genevieve Bujold  with Irene Papas and Richard Burton

 

 
 

 

 On location at Penthurst Castle

A Most Unusual Elizabeth

Writer Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth in the movie Orlando (1992).

 

 

Henry VIII in 1526

 A medal of Henry VIII in 1526.

So this is what he looked like when he began pursuing Anne Boleyn around this time.

From The National Gallery, Washington D.C.