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Reading this, it might be as likely that they didn't sufficiently like each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI#Marriage_and_family_...

"Important" people get trained into helplessness very quickly. They are the symbol that validates power, but any real action they take is a risk to the movers and shakers surrounding them.

I think it follows that people who have everything given to them would turn out to be ungiving lovers, either out of ignorance or expectation.

Sure, but in this particular case he's not even being selfish.

He was also hella inbred. Look at a picture of him. Not too surprising he’d have a messed up endocrine system.