Did Anne Boleyn have dark brown, light brown, or black hair?

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2 thoughts on “Did Anne Boleyn have dark brown, light brown, or black hair?”
  1. As there is no human possibility of having ‘black’ irises to the eyes, perhaps they were simply dark brown?

    As for her hair, doubtless in the winter it would have appeared darker, but in the summer, probably more auburn through the effects of the sun. There was a fashionable craze in the C16th in Europe for lightening one’s hair in the sun (in private, of course) and perhaps Anne would have been no different. Certainly wearing French hoods leaves ladies’ hair more open to the ravages of sunlight than does the English Gable headdress.

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