User blog comment:Dettles/Doflamingo's Past/@comment-86.135.192.145-20130330093957

I don't think he was born a king. If you look at the drawing of Doflamingo as a child, he's pretty shabby and sits on a sofa, not a throne. I think perhaps what Vergo implied was that Doflamingo's already been through a lot of stuff to get from that point of (what looks like) poverty to his position as a king, shichibukai and the underworld's chief broker, and has no doubt had to deal with set backs before...though probably nothing quite as major as this.

I think that, if there is a flashback, it will be in a similar vein to Rob Lucci's: brief yet comprehensive.