Charles II didn't speak until he was four, and didn't walk until he was eight. His tongue was so large that he drooled frequently, and he was unable to chew due to the "Hapsburg jaw." The physician who performed his autopsy wrote that he "did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."

Nonetheless, he married multiple times in a futile effort to produce an heir. I know that marriages at the time were almost entirely political, but I still wonder what the women in question often thought of their situation. Is there any record of any of Charles' wives being dissatisfied or repulsed with their lot in life? What about other women forced to marry and attempt to procreate with kings who were quite clearly mentally or physically incapacitated? Were they brought up to see it simply as their duty?