This is Philip II of Spain. When Bloody Mary saw this painting, she fell in love.
" Mary rejected Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon, as a prospect when her cousin Charles V suggested she marry his only son, the Spanish Prince Philip, later Philip II of Spain. It is said that upon viewing the Titian full-length portrait of Philip now in the Prado,[5] which had been sent to her, Mary declared herself to be in love with him." (wiki: "Mary I of England" - Bloody Mary)
NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, gets me hot and bothered like pasty skin, pink eyelids and sparse blonde mustaches.
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