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On 18 July 1552, a boy was born in Vienna who would spend his whole life refusing to marry anyone. A girl in Spain was promised to him before she could walk. She spent the next five decades building a life out of everything he never gave her.
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Diego Velázquez painted her at three years old. Then at five. Then at eight. Then at nine. Her father sent every portrait north to Vienna so that the man she was going to marry could watch her grow up. That man was her uncle.
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Every dynasty in Europe practised strategic marriage. The Habsburgs practised it on themselves. Maria Antonia of Austria was the result.