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To: SunkenCiv
Her beauty and sexual attractiveness -- at 5ft 11in, Mary was about a foot taller than the average woman -- gave her cousin Elizabeth I all the more reason to eventually execute her for treason in 1587, Ms Smith said.

Having one's head cut off will definitely take a few inches off one's overall height...

15 posted on 03/23/2018 9:39:04 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: WayneS
The day that MQoS was executed, Elizabeth shut herself up in her bedchamber, but her unstrung weeping could be heard through the doors.

66 posted on 03/23/2018 12:46:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: WayneS

So women in those days were only 4’11”?
I wonder if this is one of those cases where the inch was the length of the king’s thumb and then they got a new queen (so possibly Mary was 71 of her own thumb-lengths tall?)


82 posted on 03/23/2018 5:50:08 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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