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Elizabeth of Austria and Casimir IV of Poland in the woodcut from the Łaski Statute. Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych

A problematic history of obsessing over royal women’s looks, from Camilla to the ‘ugly’ Elizabeth of Austria

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University; Magdalena Biniaś-Szkopek, Adam Mickiewicz University, and Robert Tomczak, Adam Mickiewicz University

Elizabeth of Austria, hailed the ‘mother of kings’, is still remembered more for her supposed lack of beauty than for her political legacy.

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