From her portraits she wasn’t a beauty, pretty much average. Supposedly she was vivacious and flirtatious though which charmed Henry. Beauty wasn’t a requirement for a royal wife, bloodlines were. Henry had mistresses for the beauty part. He did, however, reject one wife because she was too homely, Anne of Cleves. He was to marry her sight unseen based upon a portrait that had been shown him and the artist had taken it upon himself to make her look better than she did in person. Anne was by all accounts a wonderful person so in the end it was likely Henry’s loss.
Thank you for your thoughts.
Nowadays photographers and apps make lots of people look better than they really look.