To think (generationally) wealthy people are better looking?

[LylaLee]

Yes, there are many men who would have married the 'homely' neighbour in order to join land or for alliance reasons.

But very often, a wealthy man 'gets to pick' a beautiful woman. Over several generations, surely this results in a better looking family overall. Whereas we plebs occasionally are randomly good looking, but not in the same way as a family with generation after generation of 'beauty injections' to their gene pool.

"What is beautiful? I'm not sure everyone agrees on that."

There are general standards within a particular culture and time period, yes.

It's so subjective to say Meghan is considerably more beautiful than Kate. In my opinion I would say the opposite. I think Megan is very average looking but uses her wealth to improve her looks and clothes.

Doria is superbly beautiful 😍.

I don’t think Kate is beautiful. She’s very attractive, well groomed and styled but she’s a bit too bland and conventional looking to be a beauty.

Cool, a nice bit of racism to go with my lunch

Kate is not beautiful. I agree that Doria is better looking than Meghan, but Meghan is definitely better looking than Kate who is far too thin and has a raddled look about her. I'm no Sussex Squad-er, either, but I think that the fawning over Kate is quite ridiculous.

Not sure the royal family bears your theory out....

She is very generic looking. Her sister is slightly prettier but again absolutely nothing outstanding IMO.

There is some good bone structure around with the wealthy, that’s my observation.

YANBU, but I find it applies to middle class wealthy rather than aristocracy wealthy. The latter usually look… odd

Sometimes. Not for our Royal Family.

For the ultimate lesson against royal inbreeding, I give you King Charles II of Spain (and bear in mind that this portrait is likely to be quite flattering, what with him being royal and all)!

Royals are a bit different though as there’s a history of inbreeding there.

If only he’d eaten less ultra processed food…

I’m not sure why the royals’ looks are getting such a bashing. They’re not the Munsters.

I disagree. What amazes me is when you see smooth handsome well heeled men who look very elegant suddenly looking like complete shite on a mug shot when they are arrested for fraud or something seedy

Some of them are close enough, TBF

How many term pregnancies had she had? Nine? Ten?

The Windsor family has been reigning since centuries. They should be the most beautiful people according to the theory. What happened?

Re criminals, Ted Bundy was very handsome.

I've always though royals suffered in the looks department because they married each other - essentially inbreeding - to keep the loot in the family.

Is this what you had in mind @zaazaazoo?

Although, he doesn’t look THAT bad to be fair. He was just never my cup of tea at the best of times.

These pictures are for the charming person who said that Aboriginal Australians were all ugly.

Hugh Grant’s mugshot got taken in 1995! How time flies.

Still, he’s been busy over that time, hating on the press and making crap Richard Curtis movies.

He doesn’t look ugly, he just looks shifty and guilty as ALL HELL. It’s so funny 😂 what a nob.

Historically - this wasn't true because aristocracy used to interbreed.

Interbreeding leads to people having more genetic diseases, being less intelligent and less attractive.

So it depends how far back you're going IMO.

All the attractive people I know date similarly attractive people - and vice versa for less attractive people, irrespective of wealth.

I think diversity of genes tends to lead to healthier and more attractive offspring tbh. I don't think the upper classes have the most genetic diversity, so I disagree with your hypothesis.

For sure having money helps you maintain looks as you age though, but that's maybe something different than raw beauty.