Queen Bess had a discussion with James Melville, Mary Stuart's ambassador, in 1564 basically grilling him with details all about her rival. She asked if Mary were taller, to which Melville quickly replied that she was. Bess replied, "Then she is too high. I myself am neither too high nor too low." (First Elizabethan_Carolly Erickson, 218).
Mary Stuart was almost six feet tall. (Ibid., 200). Arlys On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:01:03 -0600 "Exstock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen several definitive answers on this (and other) lists, but > I'm > afraid that they were all different. The one that stuck in my head > best (I > think a letter was quoted) was 5'7" with her cousin being "too tall" > at > 5'9", but of course that means absolutely nothing, since a) I could > be > remembering wrong, and b) even if I'm remembering right, that > doesn't mean > that the answer was right. > > A web search, by the way, turns up 5'3"-5'5" as the most common > heights > given, for whatever that's worth. If she was 5'3" near the end of > her life > it wouldn't be odd for her to have been 5'5" at her tallest, given > the > shrinking effects of age/osteoporosis. > > -E "Non-Answers-R-Us" House > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
