Archduke Charles, the younger brother of the Emperor Maximilian II, was the Imperial candidate for the hand of Elizabeth I of England.  In 1566, Thomas Dannett, the English envoy to Vienna, sent home a glowing report about the prospective bridegroom.  The Archduke was courteous, affable, wise, had a good memory, was popular, and liked vigorous outdoor sports.  A recent attack of smallpox had not disfigured him, as the pockmarks were 'broad rather than deep'; he was 'of sanguine complexion, and, for a man, beautiful and well-faced, well-shaped, small in the waist and well and broad breasted; he seems in his clothes well thighed and well-legged'.

Elizabeth had no intention of marrying this paragon (or anyone else) but she dragged the marriage negotiations out for years, until the Archduke tired of them, and married his niece Maria of Bavaria.

Source: Sandra Wise