This beautifully detailed and delicate French hood was designed by Margaret Furse for use on Geneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days. The hood was seen again on Daphne Slater as Queen Mary I in the 1971 Elizabeth R. That same year it was worn on an extra in Mary, Queen of Scots, which also featured Margaret Furse as costume designer. It was likely used many more times over the years, but was not spotted again until the 2001 documentary The Six Wives of Henry VIII on Charlotte Roach as Jane Seymour. In 2003 it was seen on another extra in the miniseries Henry VIII.

After that point, the hood was used in a series of photoshoots, as it goes on to feature on several book covers over the years, many of which appear to have come from the same shoot. In 2007 it was seen on the Alison Weir book Innocent Traitor, as well as on Suzannah Dunn’s The Sixth Wife. The next year it was spotted on another one of Dunn’s novels, entitled The Queen of Subtleties.

In 2008 it was also used in that production which all Tudor-esque costumes must at some point pass through – Showtime’s The Tudors – where it was worn by Catherine Byrne as Alice More.  In 2009 it was seen on another book cover – this time on Blood Royal by Vanora Bennett. Lastly and most recently, it was seen in the 2021 episode of Ghosts entitled The Bone Plot, where it was worn by Chloé Delanney as Sophie.

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