I've heard of the Hapsburgs, of course -- history isn't my thing but I'm not totally uneducated -- but I had never heard of the Hapsburg chin. Interesting.
Here's a mention of what you talked of. The page is now not found, but this is from the Google cache.
Charles II of Spain, the most grotesque monarch of the seventeenth century, had been a
travesty of a king. Generations of royal intermarriage had culminated in Charles in a creature
so defective in mind and body as to be scarcely even a man. He was born in 1661, the
product of his father's old age, and his brief life consisted chiefly of a passage from prolonged
infancy to premature senility.
He could not walk until he was ten, and was considered to be too feeble for the rigours of
education. In Charles, the famous Hapsburg chin reached such massive proportions that he
was unable to chew, and his tongue was so large that he was barely able to speak.
Lame, epileptic, bald at the age of 35, Charles suffered one further disability, politically
more significant than all the rest: he was impotent.
This URL may get you to the cached version; not sure.
google.com
Anyhow, thanks for sending me off on an enjoyable interlude on Google. |
