Queen Consort
We can be almost completely certain that her hair was a golden red, her eyes dark brown, her nose ridged or hooked in the middle, her lips rather thin, and her cheek bones pronounced.
But there will be a subtle difference between Olivia and the Queen - and it's all to do with the colour of their eyes. Queen Elizabeth II has blue eyes, as does Claire Foy. Olivia Colman, however, has brown eyes and she won't be opting for contact lenses to change their hue.
Prince William having his mother's eyes is not surprising, as blue eyes are predominant in both families except for Prince Andrew. One might conclude that "all royal eyes are blue," but there is a change in this generation.
The fair-haired and blue-eyed Charles at 19 weeks old. He was expected to one day become king, but because of the relatively young age of George VI and Princess Elizabeth when he was born, a wait of many decades seemed inevitable - and so it proved.
For instance, just take a look at the royal family for an example of the unpredictability of eye colour: Prince George the young son of blue-eyed Prince William and green-eyed Kate Middleton, has dark brown eyes.
Revealing mistakes. In the final speech, King George VI has one blue eye and one brown eye.
In addition to her beautiful blue eyes, another part of Diana's beauty legacy was her flawless skin.
Kate Middleton has hazel-green colour eyes, and dark brown hair, while Prince William has fair hair and blue eyes, and it seems each child takes after them in different ways...
“Nearly one in 10 (nine percent) of respondents in Lenstore's survey found Prince William's eyes the most attractive.
Widely known for having the most striking eyes in Hollywood, Taylor had what appeared to be rare, natural purple irises.
Instead, in a royal continuity break, Colman's eyes remain their regular color – brown – throughout Seasons 3 and 4 of the series. (The real queen's eyes are blue, like those of Foy, who played the British monarch in the first two seasons.) Re-coloring Colman's eyes in post-production was vetoed as well.
Hair and eye colour – and the closest matching portrait
The DNA results showed that Richard III had a 96% probability of having blue eyes and a 77% probability of having blond hair.
A new biography of Queen Elizabeth II has revealed the monarch was suffering from bone marrow cancer before her death.
According to his account: Anne Boleyn was rather tall of stature, with black hair and an oval face of sallow complexion, as if troubled with jaundice. She had a projecting tooth under the upper lip, and on her right hand, six fingers.
Fun fact: Queen Elizabeth has blue eyes. Second fun fact: Claire Foy, who played Queen Elizabeth for two seasons on The Crown, also has that same shade of sky.
When describing one-year-old Lilibet's physical features he says she has "the same blue eyes" as his mother, "Blue, blue, blue eyes," Meghan interjects, and "sort of like a golden, red-ish hair," Harry adds.
1. Meghan Markle - brown eyes Dr Julian De Silva said: "Meghan has brown eyes like 34% of the population in the UK. What makes her eyes so striking is how warm and welcoming they are.
“Can two parents with blue eyes have a child with brown eyes?” Yes, blue-eyed parents can definitely have a child with brown eyes.
And in a 2017 interview with Yahoo, Mary revealed that she was the one who convinced Diana to ditch her favourite electric blue eyeliner. “I think beiges and browns are just so much prettier. Simple as that.”
Each person's eye color is determined by their parents' genetic makeup, and they can either be homozygous (meaning their parents' eye colors match) or heterozygous (meaning their parents' eye colors differ). Harry is homozygous blue and Markle is heterozygous, because her mom has brown eyes and her dad has hazel eyes.
Turns out it was actually her make-up artist, Mary Greenwell, who convinced Diana to ditch the blue liner when they started working together in the early 1990s. Speaking to Stylist, Greenwell revealed that her first shoot with Diana was “the first time we got her out of blue eyeliner and she loved the change!
With his light brown eyes, brunette hair and sweet smile, Prince Louis arguably looks the most like Princess Kate of all her children.
Finland – 89%
Sharing the rank of first in the world with Estonia, Finland also has a whopping 89 percent of its population with blue eyes. The stunning combination of blue eyes and sandy brown or blonde hair is much sought after in other countries, but very much the norm here.
The most prevalent place to find people with blue eyes (and where those percentages are considerably higher) is in the Scandinavian region. Europe also has pocket where people with blue eyes can be more commonly found. While the color blue is beautiful in the eyes, it is also evidence of less melanin production.