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- Robert Hughes may have a good background in art, but in his
- review of the Spanish painter Velazquez (ART, Oct. 9), he
- missed on Europe's dynasties. He calls Queen Mariana a "Bourbon
- Queen" and refers to the "Bourbon lip" of King Philip IV. King
- Philip IV and Queen Mariana were Habsburgs to the core. Queen
- Mariana was actually the daughter of the King's sister and the
- Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, also a Habsburg. The
- intermarriage of Habsburgs is blamed for the handicaps and
- infertility of their son Charles II, the last of the Spanish
- Habsburgs. Of all the Spanish royalty, Philip IV and Mariana
- should certainly not be called "Bourbon"!
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- Hugo D. Riffel Glendale, Calif.
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