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"King Charles II of Spain was a product (victim?) of sever inbreeding:

Charles’s own immediate pedigree was exceptionally populated with nieces giving birth to children of their uncles: Charles’s mother was a niece of Charles’s father, being a daughter of Maria Anna of Spain (1606–46) and Emperor Ferdinand III. Thus, Empress Maria Anna was simultaneously his aunt and grandmother and Margarita of Austria was both his grandmother and great-grandmother.

He rarely bathed or groomed himself. He never attended school. He couldn’t speak until he was 4 (and could barely speak at all because his tongue was so big), or walk until he was 8. His jaw was so deformed he couldn’t chew. He had his dead relatives dug up so he could be close to their skulls. His first wife became so depressed she basically ate all day and died at 26. He was bald, blind and toothless by the time he was 35.

Monarchy was awesome."

I lol'd