Once a year....

I hope she wore some sort of Elizabethan 'fanny fresh' under those long skirts with no ventilation. 
Trust you Opti!

In those days everyone smelt, and to us now would smell very badly! With our Queen Bess though it was her breath in her later life that apparently could knock people off their feet. That was due to her very rotten teeth due to eating lots of sugar laden foods and treats, as the very wealthy did as they could afford those niceties!

Wonder if they had trouble getting a dentist. 
I think in those days, the dentist was the barber, or the barber was the dentist.... Something like that anyway! 
Correct, later called barber surgeons as they took out teeth, cut off limbs, bled people to cure them of ailments, and generally decreased the survival rate of someone injured in battle from 50/50, to less than 5 in 95! But there was nothing else that could be done apart from leaving someone to die. Henry Vlll survived his surgeons attempts to cure his terrible, very painful, ailments, like leg that ulcers that leaked very smelly puss and made him bad tempered enough to have unfortunates executed on a whim! So Queen Bess’s foul breath and no doubt tooth ache was nothing.
