Charles II was super inbred #shorts

[Ismail-Ibrahim]

Keep in mind, he possibly looked a lot worse than what we see in the painting, because for obvious reasons painters had to make him look good

[ElkRiverDog]

I’ve said it elsewhere and I’ll say it here: dude’s family tree was a bundle of tangled up Christmas lights

[evanmaulbetsch]

Imagine being the poor artist who was told to somehow make his portrait look “good”.

[redwoodbeard]

If i recall correctly, these paintings were the "photo shopped" versions. As in made to make Charles here look way better.

[Lazysupermutant]

Quite a bit was said of Charles II a.k.a Charles the Bewitched. My favorite quote being...

"He baffled all of Christendom by continuing to live."

Like...damn.

[markopolo]

Man's family tree be looking like headphone wires after putting them in your pocket for 0.25 seconds

[moteroargentino]

"You're not dealing with the regular inbred king anymore." -Charles II, probably.

[EgnachHelton]

Gotta give a praise to Habsburgs for at least refraining from sibling marriage 😂

[KnottyEvo]

Instead of a family tree, he had a family wreath.

[Mr.Duckman]

"Mummy said it's a strong chin for a strong boy!" - Oversimplified (I think)

[SomeScruffian]

You know its bad when your family tree looks like a Snakes and Ladders boardgame.

[gagewesterhouse]

So I was reading about incest, and apparently, 1st cousins have 2-3% higher rate of birth defects in their children. 2nd cousin couplings result in a negligible increase in birth defects, and once you get to 3rd cousins, they share so little DNA (0.78%) that there is no increased risk of birth defects. Shockingly, even when speaking of children who are the product of sibling incest (roughly 50% shared DNA with full siblings), the children usually don't have any manifested defects. Apparently, the biggest problem with incest is when it's successive throughout several generations, as seen here with the Habsburgs.

Edit; most people are surprised to learn that incest is actually very commonplace outside of the West (cousin marriage, not direct relative incest) in the modern day, and even in the West, cousin marriage was quite common until the very end of the 19th century.

[JCB]

This kept the Spanish crown in the family for 200 years.

[TheTruEvn]

I think my mind vomited 3 times in the first 2 branches of that “tree”

[SyxxPunk]

"I call it the Hapsburg Family Tree, because that s**t is circular."
- max0r

[irishgodfatherchris]

I remember seeing somewhere that Charles II had a Inbreeding Coefficient so high that his parents could have been full siblings and they would have lowered the Coefficient.

[revenevan]

Also, keep in mind that a portrait painter was likely portraying him as favorably as possible 0_0

[justtherabbithole]

"Is it safe to assume that your family tree is a mobius loop!?"
-Postal Dude

[TheODST]

The Habsburg family tree looks like a freaking Christmas Wreath.

[Imjustasimpleman]

Most people have 16 different great-great-grandparents, Charles II of Spain had just 6!