Mary and Elizabeth at the same time (1578) ages 36 and 45, obviously Elizabeth was the queen and her image was tightly controlled to appear to her subjects as eternally youthful and healthy, but it is often forgotten in popular culture that years of captivity took their toll on Mary, she wasn’t an 18 year old queen forever, women are allowed to age and Mary and Elizabeth both did. Elizabeth wore wigs yes but that was fashionable and as far as anyone knows nothing to do with her own natural hair besides the obvious fading and greying that occurs when you age. Mary also wore wigs as we know from her execution account, but this makes sense given Mary was 44 and it was the style of the day, it is not really a comment of the attractiveness or vanity of either women but rather the style of the Elizabethan era and the attempt to seem younger which was something they would have both felt being both women and queens.
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