“Redheads have moved history out of proportion to their numbers.”
Thursday 2 August 2018
473) Selim II
Selim II (1524 – 1574). 11th Sultan of the Ottoman empire. Son of Suleiman the Magnificent and Haseki Hürrem Sultan.
The caption to this portrait says "This depiction is apparently life-like, since it depicts him with red hair and blue eyes, as described by contemporaries."
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