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Born 1531 or 1532 • near Valencia • Spain
Died August 8, 1588 • Madrid • Spain

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Elizabeth of Valois, queen of Spain, oil painting by Alonso Sánchez Coello, c. 1560; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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