Editing Mary Tudor, Queen of France (section)

== Appearance and personality ==
Upon her arrival in France, Mary was described as being "handsome and well favoured, were not her eyes and eyebrows too light; she is slight, rather than defective from corpulence, and conducts herself with so much grace, and has such good manners, that for her age of 18 years—and she does not look more—she is a paradise."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol2/pp202-213|title=Venice: November 1514 {{!}} British History Online|via=British History Online|access-date=8 November 2018}}</ref>

Contemporaries lauded her beauty, including her husband, Louis XII, who described her as a "nymph from heaven".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol2/pp193-202|title=Venice: October 1514 {{!}} British History Online|via=British History Online|access-date=8 November 2018}}</ref> She regularly took part in [[masque]]s at her brother's court, and enjoyed "hearing singing, instrumental music, and dancing".<ref name=":1" />

Mary was described as "very lively",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol1/pp1297-1312|title=Henry VIII: June 1514, 16–30 {{!}} British History Online|via=British History Online|access-date=8 November 2018}}</ref> with one nobleman noting "[she] is never still."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol2/pp236-241|title=Venice: April 1515 {{!}} British History Online|via=British History Online|access-date=8 November 2018}}</ref> She was also said to be cheerful and affable; this is shown when, upon meeting her future husband Louis for the first time, she blew him a kiss in greeting.<ref name=":1" />