Name That Historical Person
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Since there is no surviving portrait of her before middle-age (a watercolor-on-ivory miniature), this must be the Dr. Patricia Brady speculative portrait done from reverse aging by forensic anthropologists at the Louisiana State University Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services Labratory which is now at Mount Vernon.Which reminds me. No one has yet identified this first lady:
Most people probably know that Robert E. Lee's wife was her granddaughter, and that through that line she has living descendants.
A long way of saying that I would never in a million years gotten that correct other than by pure elimination.
No, not her. We've left the first ladies topic now. But it does look like a skinnier version of her
John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, President of the Continental Congress etc. . .
Changed my mind - see above.No, not her. We've left the first ladies topic now. But it does look like a skinnier version of her
But Mrscrunge seemingly got it the first time round.
I must say I'm surprised that she lived until 1910 since all one ever sees are photographs of her from the time of the Crimean War.
King Richard I of England (Richard the Lionhearted) the statue is outside the Houses of Parliament (the Palace of Westminster) in London.
He had no legitimate heirs.
