[Magdalen] Spanish Royaly.

[Roger Stokes]

On 07/10/2016 16:09, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> Seeing the tabulation of the rulers of the multiple sections that make  up
> modern Spain, I am bewildered by the complexity of the royal family
> tree which I think surpasses that of England.  US history is a breeze
> by comparison.  The Bourbons and the Hapsburgs are in the mix,  too.

This complexity is due to the thinking that those in libe to the throne 
needed to marry someone whowas also of "royal blood" rather than a 
commoner. This led to the inter-relatedness of the European Royal 
Families, the Heads of State of Britain, Germany and Russia at the 
outbreak of the First World War. King George V (of the UK) was first 
cousing with both Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II, who were third 
cousins to each other.

Roger