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Region: Lazarus

Divine Egypt wrote:He was Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark. How those two nations managed to end up with the same dynasty I'm not sure. Then again, all European royalty is related due to all the inbreeding so...

(OOC Actually Lizzie was his third cousin removed if I had understood correctly what they were saying in one of the documentaries.

Moaning Lisa wrote:Inbreeding? Like House Targaryen of Dragonstone in fiction, or the Hawaiian Royal family in history? How naughty!

The Habsburg began their rise to power through an intelligent strategy of exogamy marrying outside to consolidate their power as much as possible, afterwards, they reversed policy and began an intensive endogamy policy. Marrying between cousins, uncles, nieces and so on.

The worst offender became the Habsburg Spain (Casa de Austria or House of Austria), reaching it peak with Charles II of Spain. How bad it was, well ...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664480/

Charles II had a degree of inbreeding of (F = 0.254), a parent-child or brother-sister has a degree of (F = 0.250). So the accumulative effect was greater than the result of a first incest degree.

From wikipedia. The autopsy results:

"... did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."

So let's say that for this and other reasons here in Aigania have a heartly support exogamy and genetic mixing.)

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