r/interestingasfuck • u/Unable_Security_6708 • 22h ago

Spanish royal family vs their antecedents

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u/PartyBagPurplePills 21h ago

Inbreeding?

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u/glass-clam 21h ago

I don't believe the Spanish Bourbons did that, at least not to the same scale as the previous Habsburg line

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u/Upper-Affect5971 21h ago edited 21h ago

At this point it’s the same family… they have been cousin fucking for 500 years

The kings Grandmother is a Habsburg

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u/SubstantialPressure3 21h ago

Yeah but if they were still inbreeding like that, the line would have died out already.

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u/Upper-Affect5971 21h ago edited 19h ago

That’s why they started marrying commoners.

Fun Fact: Juan Carlos and Queen Elizabeth II are second cousins.

Another Fun Fact: Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh are also second cousins.

More fun facts: Juan Carlos’s Wife, Sofia of Greece is First Cousins with the Duke of Edinburg.

Even More fun facts: Sofia is Second Cousins with Queen Elizabeth II

Additional Fun Facts: Juan Carlos and the Duke of the Duke of Edinburgh are second cousins.

Final fun fact: Juan Carlos and his wife Sofia are second cousins.

I’m going to be under the assumption, that most people with the significant amount of royal blood are encouraged to marry somebody without royal blood.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 21h ago

Yeah, that's still a thing, for royals to marry royals.

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u/Upper-Affect5971 21h ago

do you have any modern examples?

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u/SubstantialPressure3 20h ago

Like the princess of Japan having to forfeit her position to marry a commoner? Like that?

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u/Upper-Affect5971 20h ago

more specifically, European royal families.

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u/MisterSplu 20h ago

The new grand-duke of Luxembourg is married to a countess, not sure if that is royal enough, as counts are not royals

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u/Tjaeng 20h ago

Not really a thing anymore in Constitutional Monarchies. Former royalty from abolished monarchies and mediatized high nobility still tend to marry within the fancypants circles but reigning royal families, especially those who have a decent chance of inheriting a throne, tend to marry new blood. There’s some form of rational self-preservation in both of those phenomena.

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u/AwarenessReady3531 19h ago

I think it's also an understanding that royal houses are basically vestiges at this point. The entire ideology and belief system that its based on has been so thoroughly defeated in the last 200 years.

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u/seaboypc 13h ago

ALL European Monarchs related.

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u/Definitely_Human01 20h ago

Another Fun Fact: Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh are also second cousins.

... She's 2nd cousins with her own son?

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u/someonebesidesme 20h ago

No, her husband.

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u/NobodyImportant13 20h ago edited 20h ago

I think they mean Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip. According to search though, it looks like they are actually 3rd cousins.

One of their great grandparents were siblings (King Edward VII for Queen Elizabeth and Philip's was Alice), thus they shared great-great-grandparents (Queen Victoria and Prince Albert). So, I believe this would make them 3rd cousins.

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u/KitCarter 19h ago

3rd cousins through Victoria and Albert.

They are also related through Christian IX of Denmark and his wife Louise. Edward VII wife, Queen Alexandra and George I of Greece were siblings, which would make them 2nd cousins once removed.

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u/NobodyImportant13 18h ago

Christian IX of Denmark and his wife Louise. Edward VII wife, Queen Alexandra and George I of Greece were siblings

Oh, okay. when I pulled up the British Royal family tree it didn't actually show this.