Talk:Karin Månsdotter
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[edit] Wrong picture
I'm afraid that picture is not correct and it does not portray her. As is stated in the article, Karin Månsdotter was never portrayed; the picture put in the article has long ben presented as hers, and it was believed to be of her, but later historians and reasurchers have, sorry to say, discovered that it is in fact not of her, but of her sister-in-law, Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, probably painted in the late 1570s, when Karin was in exile in Finland. She would not have ben painted as mistress, and the fashion is of the 1580s and not 1560s. In the 16th century, portrays was not always named; the names of the people portrayed, was often added long after, when one felt a need to have a portrait of this or that person, wether the portrait actually showed the person in question at all. Sadly, there where simply no portrait made of her, and this picture of her sister-in-law should not have ben put in wikipedia commons under her name. Perhaps one should put it in the article of Princess Elizabeth, the person it really is, instead? I will remove it now and insert this facts in the article.
