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Even though the King was kind of old, he had a handsome face, and do I spot a "distracting" feature?!
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I mentioned that the prince who died in the accident was the son of Princess Christine de Ligne. She is descended from a famous wit present at the Congress of Vienna, prince Lamoral de Ligne.
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His wife was also a wit, and is remembered for a bon mot that has come down in history: noting that men no longer wore tight-fitting knee breeches (as the King does in this picture) she said: "at least before, you always knew what a man was thinking".