I know I am not the only one who stares at portraits and compares them to find similar facial features. Someone suggested a side by side of their portraits to see which parent each child looks most like. I did my best to find images that looked similar. Please weigh in – in the comment section below! Hope you enjoy!
Mary – Henry or Katherine?
Henry Fitzroy – Henry & poss. Bessie?
Elizabeth – Henry or Anne?
Edward – Henry or Jane?
Mary looks like Henry,
Henry F looks like Besse
Elizabeth looks like Anne
Edward looks like Henry
good grief Henry’s nose does carry over for most of them doesn’t it? I think Mary looks the most half and half, she’s got her father’s eyes but her mother’s nose. She has the obesity (at least at that age, or maybe it’s just baby fat) that her father has in later years, but the shape of her mother’s face.
Henry Fitzroy has the eyes and nose of his father, but the over all shape of his face is like his mother’s.
Elizabeth looks very much like her mother, except for her nose. They’re almost identical.
Edward, again THE NOSE. He looks over all more like his mother but who knows what would have happened when he became Henry’s age. Perhaps he would have gained weight and started looking like his father. I think he looks rather like Henry when he fathered Mary.
I’ve seen another picture of Edward where he definitely resembles Henry, more than the picture here. I always find Anne B’s pictures are all different, but the one shown here is the one I see most and what I feel she may have looked like. Elizabeth definitely looks like her, except she had Henry’s red hair. I don’t know about Mary. I think she really had a look all her own and does not resemble either parent.
The really interesting one to me is Catherine Carey, the daughter of MAry Boleyn and I truly believe Henry.
If interested, Google a picture of her, the likeness is remarkable.