Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496–1533) — the younger sister of King Henry VIII — was famous in her lifetime for her beauty, and especially for her remarkable hair. Contemporary accounts and historical analysis consistently describe her hair as a beautiful red-gold or golden hair tinged with red, often referred to as the “Tudor trademark.” It is sometimes described as strawberry blonde or light red.
When her tomb was opened in 1784, a lock of her hair was preserved. Reports on the color of the preserved hair varied between “red or gold.” At the time her coffin was opened, she reportedly had two foot-long tresses of hair.
It is important to note that while contemporary descriptions and physical evidence (like the preserved lock of hair) lean toward a reddish-gold color, the hair color in her portraits can sometimes appear darker (even brown) due to the darkening of pigments over time or variations in the original copies.
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