A) Henry was likely impotent at this time.
B) Henry's declaration of Anne's ugliness likely had more to do with the fact that he was, by this time, a fat ugly man who smelled bad due to bits of him rotting, and who expected to be treated as the dashing young prince he'd been.
a princess in the public eye, as Anne of Cleves certainly was, would be known to be unattractive if this was actually the case.
Was that in fact the case, before the invention of the camera, never mind the television and the internet?
IIRC, about 250 years later, the future George IV went into a state of shock the first time he met his future wife.
A) Henry was likely impotent at this time.
B) Henry's declaration of Anne's ugliness likely had more to do with the fact that he was, by this time, a fat ugly man who smelled bad due to bits of him rotting, and who expected to be treated as the dashing young prince he'd been.
The Holbein portrait of Anne isn't unattractive (see below).
How accurate was the painting? We know that Holbein's mission was to paint Anne so that Henry knew what he was getting into, so he shouldn't have deliberately made her look prettier than real life (but we can never know for sure).
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Anne of ClevesPortrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1539. Oil and Tempera on Parchment mounted on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.