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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4863383, member: 110504"]"'Keeping it in the family.'" Ditto, [USER=111387]@Herodotus[/USER]. My favorite was Carlos 'the Bewitched,' the last of the reigning Spanish Habsburgs.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain</a></p><p>If you follow European royal genealogy, you see an interesting phenomenon. With the Carolingians, the family tree branches out, almost indefinitely, across all kinds of less established lines, royal and aristocratic. Until it doesn't any more. Eventually the gene pool stops expanding, and starts to contract. By the 17th century, genetically induced craziness (metaphorical, ...and otherwise) has become a serious issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4863383, member: 110504"]"'Keeping it in the family.'" Ditto, [USER=111387]@Herodotus[/USER]. My favorite was Carlos 'the Bewitched,' the last of the reigning Spanish Habsburgs. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain[/URL] If you follow European royal genealogy, you see an interesting phenomenon. With the Carolingians, the family tree branches out, almost indefinitely, across all kinds of less established lines, royal and aristocratic. Until it doesn't any more. Eventually the gene pool stops expanding, and starts to contract. By the 17th century, genetically induced craziness (metaphorical, ...and otherwise) has become a serious issue.[/QUOTE]
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