[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Think Shakespeare was mainly influenced by Thomas More's account of Richard's hunchback. It was a fairly typical smear of the time to exaggerate or completely fabricate deformities to suggest that someone's inner evil manifested itself also in their body. It happened for a long time with Anne Boleyn that she would have deformities exaggerated to make out she was a lot more ugly than she actually was

Yes,it was said she had an extra finger or something wasn't it, as if Henry V111 would have lusted after someone ugly.

[In the Drunk Tank]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

Yes,it was said she had an extra finger or something wasn't it, as if Henry V111 would have lusted after someone ugly.

Yep as well as a bucktooth and a growth on her neck apparently lol, that account came from a Catholic priest I think which explains the fabrication