I live in Spain and I have never heard of yellow being the colour of mourning. In her book on the six wives, Alison Weir did state that yellow was the colour of mourning in Spain but she actually corrected this in her book "The Lady in the Tower", saying that she had found no record of this. ![]() On the day after Catherine's death, when the news got to Greenwich, Chapuys reports that Henry VIII "was clad all over in yellow, from top to toe, except the white feather he had in his bonnet" whereas the chronicler Edward Hall writes that “Quene Anne ware yelowe for the mournyng", so it is unclear exactly who did wear yellow and also their motives. I've actually just written about this - see.
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