Absent falling coal

I'm bored of the debates about whether she was a hunchbacked-dwarf, or had a crooked nose, and whether or not it was all down to charisma. I'm sure she had buckets of charisma, but that's not the point. What is really interesting is our perception of her through the ages - like everything, we obscure history to some degree through the way we look at it and subsequently manipulate it in the retelling. For a single person who is so fascinating, this effect is only magnified.

Interesting article on this here, and I'm sorely tempted to get the book.