A physical characteristic of the de Bleuchamp, a royal family that Ernst Stavro Blofeld (TELLY SAVALAS) lays claim to in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

When Bond (GEORGE LAZENBY), masquerading as heraldry expert Sir Hilary Bray, arrives at Piz Gloria—Blofeld’s Swiss mountain allergy clinic—the SPECTRE chief immediately shows off the fact that he too does not have earlobes. Bond notes the fact, but he insists that Blofeld accompany him on a trip to the de Bleuchamp ancestral home in Augsburg. Only there will he be able to draw on the final evidence needed to confirm Blofeld’s de Bleuchamp claim.