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In recent years, he has hidden these behind a straggly white mustache and goatee and has grown his flaxen hair down to his shoulders.

You don’t need to be a brilliant detective to discern what phrases like “porcelain skin” or “flaxen hair” mean.

She was a tall, painfully thin woman with hair dyed an unnatural flaxen and cropped in a manner reminiscent of Dorothy Hamill.

To raise funds for the charity, which she founded 30 years ago, she has now decided to part with a picture of a Welsh cob called Goldie, a stunning chestnut with flaxen mane and tale.

Like their mother, they all have flaxen blond hair and piercing cornflower blue eyes.