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Explanation: Charles II of Spain was a famously inbred member of a famously inbred royal family, whose health was so ludicrously wrecked by his tangled genetics that it boggles the mind to read about.
Inbred sounds like 'in bread'.
That's it. That's the joke.
When you’re so inbred your family tree gives you a named physical phenotype (Habsburg jaw).
It's hard to overstate how fucking ugly he was. And the portraits that exist were likely meant to be flattering.
I was expecting another loaf within the loaf, within which our little yeasty boy sat. Family tree so tangled within itself that he would have been less inbred if his parents were merely brother and sister.
What’s the most prominent difference between the Habsburgs and the peasantry? The peasantry could wipe their food from their chins; the Habsburgs, however, could eat their food from their chins.