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Probably went into it thinking with a too European, bloodline, mindset
What's funny to me is that all the people complaining that she was too dark had no problem with the fact that she was too beautiful.
Well to be fair that's a coin from thousands of years ago, even today it's not hard to make absolutely deformed shit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43598431
Though I wouldn't be surprised either if her famous beauty was widespread sarcasm that got taken seriously, and it also wouldn't surprise me if she was actually beautiful and people wanted to demean her, like Napoleon is depicted as short even though he wasnt
As far as I know, Caesar and Anthony wrote about being attracted to her intelligence, not her looks.