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ElizabethWoodville
ElizabethWoodville
Her age?
May 22 2011, 1:18 PM EDT | Post edited: May 22 2011, 1:18 PM EDT
How old was she in this picture

Ps I have her on my Romanian version of the White queen by Phillipa Gregory. Do you find this valuable?    
juliana-angela
juliana-angela
1. RE: Her age?
May 22 2011, 3:40 PM EDT | Post edited: May 22 2011, 3:40 PM EDT
This portrait looks like a rather poor copy of the much better-known one in Queens College, Cambridge. which I have used as my avatar.

I don't think there is a definite date for the portrait. However, her headress is a butterfly or flowerpot hennin, which became fashionable in 1470 and remained so until about 1485. Elizabeth would have been 33 in 1470, and the portrait may well have been painted some time between then and 1475, when she was somewhere in her mid-thirties. Do you find this valuable?