Well, my cousin Bert Baldrick, a Mr. Gainsborough’s butler’s dogsbody, says that he’s heard all those portraits looked the same in those days, ’cause they’re painted to a romantic ideal, rather than as a true depiction of the idiosyncratic facial qualities of the person in question.
I’d go for Lord Darnley, a King consort yes, but still handsome
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They have to be the gnarliest knees I have seen.
Well, my cousin Bert Baldrick, a Mr. Gainsborough’s butler’s dogsbody, says that he’s heard all those portraits looked the same in those days, ’cause they’re painted to a romantic ideal, rather than as a true depiction of the idiosyncratic facial qualities of the person in question.
I’d go for Lord Darnley, a King consort yes, but still handsome