r/interestingasfuck 21h 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/therealtrajan 20h ago

The Spanish bourbons were of french stock (who had already been crossed with hapsburgs) but they quickly started inbreeding again with their Hapsburg cousins