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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is an urban legend that everyone in Spain started speaking this way because of the super-inbred Habsburg kings had a terrible lisp and everyone wanted to make him sound normal. There's no evidence of it, but considering this guy was king of Spain...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Consider that the artist probably, at the direction of the subject, made some alterations (aka photoshopped) to the painting in order for the portrait to come out how they wanted to appear. It's possible that the subject looked even worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Oh almost certainly. You don't make the king look bad.