“Repeatedly baffled Christendom by CONTINUING. TO. LIVE.” 💀🤣
TheMadTargaryen on
Can we please stop making fun of Charles II and repeat myths about him ? Charles II was deformed and sickly due to his extremely narrow genetic pool, and he seems to have had learning disabilities as a child, but he participated in his councils and spoke regularly with foreign envoys, who would have not let us hear the end of it had him been an imbecile. Part of the impression might come from the fact that he *was* very weak-willed and depressive, which only came from him being perfectly aware of his difficult predicament for all of his life, which forced him to rely on royal ministers and advisors. The biggest irony is that his reign wasn’t even bad in the first place; while Spain was basically in ruins, this was all his predecessors’ work, and in fact Charles and his ministers, which he handpicked quite well, managed to refloat it to the point that when his successor Philip V arrived in Spain, he found a country almost ready to follow France to war against all of Europe without collapsing. The legend of him being a freak and disgrace was initiated by Philip’s dynasty, who of course wanted to paint the previous one as a cadre of creepy madmen in order to make themselves look like the saviors of the nation.
AidsNipple on
When you’re five kings deep into a game of CK3 and your heir is a hunchbacked dwarf with a stutter
_pearly_shell_ on
Going bald before 35 💀
General_Cutsleves on
Incest isn’t morally wrong. Inbreeding however…
NotaGermanorBelgian on
Fire emblem mentioned
Falitoty on
Stop chaming my man Charles II, even with his many, many, many problems he managed to actually rule competently and fix some of Spain troubles, it’s not his fault that he was completely uncapable of having a child.
AhiruSaikou on
That’s the hottest part
Kind_Ingenuity1484 on
I mean, Cleopatra was hot though
haleloop963 on
If I remember, this is a repost as I have seen this meme here before, a long time ago. It’s been so long, though, so I assume it is OK
chknpoxpie on
That’s interesting,I’ve never seen incest portrayed as anything but disgustingly comical in the US
Wilbizzle on
“Black as Coal” had me dying.
Pyrhan on
That’s ***one*** example of incest in history.
If you want another, look up Cleopatra’s family ladder. It’s worse than the Habsburgs. And yet, from all accounts, she was healthy and attractive.
It’s a lottery, sometimes you lose, sometimes you don’t.
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“Repeatedly baffled Christendom by CONTINUING. TO. LIVE.” 💀🤣
Can we please stop making fun of Charles II and repeat myths about him ? Charles II was deformed and sickly due to his extremely narrow genetic pool, and he seems to have had learning disabilities as a child, but he participated in his councils and spoke regularly with foreign envoys, who would have not let us hear the end of it had him been an imbecile. Part of the impression might come from the fact that he *was* very weak-willed and depressive, which only came from him being perfectly aware of his difficult predicament for all of his life, which forced him to rely on royal ministers and advisors. The biggest irony is that his reign wasn’t even bad in the first place; while Spain was basically in ruins, this was all his predecessors’ work, and in fact Charles and his ministers, which he handpicked quite well, managed to refloat it to the point that when his successor Philip V arrived in Spain, he found a country almost ready to follow France to war against all of Europe without collapsing. The legend of him being a freak and disgrace was initiated by Philip’s dynasty, who of course wanted to paint the previous one as a cadre of creepy madmen in order to make themselves look like the saviors of the nation.
When you’re five kings deep into a game of CK3 and your heir is a hunchbacked dwarf with a stutter
Going bald before 35 💀
Incest isn’t morally wrong. Inbreeding however…
Fire emblem mentioned
Stop chaming my man Charles II, even with his many, many, many problems he managed to actually rule competently and fix some of Spain troubles, it’s not his fault that he was completely uncapable of having a child.
That’s the hottest part
I mean, Cleopatra was hot though
If I remember, this is a repost as I have seen this meme here before, a long time ago. It’s been so long, though, so I assume it is OK
That’s interesting,I’ve never seen incest portrayed as anything but disgustingly comical in the US
“Black as Coal” had me dying.
That’s ***one*** example of incest in history.
If you want another, look up Cleopatra’s family ladder. It’s worse than the Habsburgs. And yet, from all accounts, she was healthy and attractive.
It’s a lottery, sometimes you lose, sometimes you don’t.
Too weird to live, too rare to die.