歷史上的今天:

24th February 1603

Katherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham, died at Arundel House. She was the eldest daughter of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and his wife, Anne Morgan. As a granddaughter of Mary Boleyn, she was cousin to Queen Elizabeth I, and Katherine served as a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. She married Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham and 1st Earl of Nottingham, in 1563. Katherine was buried at All Saints, Chelsea.

Portrait attributed to Robert Peake the Elder and his studio.
 

1603 年 2 月 24 日
諾丁漢伯爵夫人凱瑟琳凱莉在阿倫德爾故居去世。
她是亨利·凱里、第一代亨斯頓男爵和他的妻子安妮·摩根的長女。
作為瑪麗博林的孫女，她是伊麗莎白一世女王的表妹，凱瑟琳擔任樞密院紳女士。
1563年，她嫁給了查爾斯·霍華德，第二代埃芬漢男爵和第一代諾丁漢伯爵。
凱瑟琳被安葬在切爾西的諸聖堂。

肖像畫由老羅伯特·皮克和他的工作室提供

肖像畫典型地呈現了伊麗莎白一世時期統治階層的髮型與服飾風格，如果細緻觀察，諾丁漢伯爵夫人從頭到脚都大有看點，服飾的每一個細節都有喻意，都是工匠們彎腰弓背，全神貫注地一針一綫勾勒而成，她頭上的每一根頭髮都由髮型師們精心梳理，盡顯其權勢與財富，真是人分九等之最分明的寫照。