Scary-looking royals

What Sissi thread?

Who isn't caught off guard by this vision of loveliness????

Are we SURE that isn't a man, OP?

Princess Kalina of Bulgaria. I know that poor thing had some sort of illness that made her look this way but that doesn't make her any less unpleasant-looking. And that awful hairstyle sure isn't helping much.

This bloke here is winning this contest hands down.

She looks super-mannish in that pic, OP, but it's probably a bad one (she looks like she's got no eyebrows there). She was actually supposed to marry Franz Josef, but he fell in love with her younger sister instead.

There's a better picture at the link.

Potentially my favorite DL thread ever.

Is Kalina one of the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas, r4? Because if so, her brother Kirill was hot to death in his youth. Too bad he's bald now.

Also, I win this thread hands down.

Though in fairness, it's not my fault. It was all the inbreeding.

R9, Charles II, older and having grown into his looks.

Hi guys!

"Older" is relative, r10. Carlos II died at age 38.

I know it's hard to believe that, but this is NOT William H. Macy in drag, it's the lovely Princess Birgitta of Sweden. This photo should be shown to all of the idiots who avoid wearing sunscreen.

Are we sure OP's pic isn't a memento mori?

We would give that butch bitch in OP’s pic the royal treatment.

This is me back in the days when I used to be a sexxxxxxy twink

Spain's Duchess of Alba claims to have some sort of odd syndrome that causes peculiar intermittent facial swelling, rather than bad plastic surgery.

She wasn't a beauty as a young woman, but at she was elegant.

She only got scary when she was older.

And here it's me rocking my favourite drag kween outfit.

And here's my gorgeous wife (and niece and paternal cousin).

Btw, Margarita Theresa is the princess depicted in Diego Velasquez' famous painting Las Meninas.

R12, well certainly. The portrait at R9 is of Charles at 24, the portrait at R10 is of him at 37. Older.

"Ah, R19, we Portuguese escaped that horrid Habsburg curse."

Google "ugly Habsburg" and you'll find

The Duchess of Alba loved to dance!

And rock a bikini (with he much younger husband).

She's been looking kind of good lately, but before the weight loss Princess Bea looked scary as shit.

It's her HUGE eyes that make her look scary. She shares this special facial feature with Freddy Windsor.

Is this the Huckabeast in disguise in R27's photo?

The huge eyes are a special Hanovarian treat.

It's not just the size of the eyes, but that they're wonky. Surely they could have done something about that, right? They seem to have Lady Louise's eyes looking more standard all the time. Sophie is patron of some ophthalmology organization, I think. Bea should have a chat with Sophie about that.

Actually my Austrian ancestors looked just that bunch. All I inherited was a big toe 2 inches larger than the rest of my foot. Size 11, nooooo size 13 and it pokes holes in all my shoes.

Delicate, flower-like Marie Louise d’Orléans, Queen consort of Spain.

Christ! You can see how the Lizard People conspiracy theory took root.