[Magdalen] Spanish Royaly.

Sibyl Smirl polycarpa3 at ckt.net
Sat Oct 8 00:20:03 UTC 2016


On 10/7/16 6:59 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
> 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.

And then there was Victoria's Royal Blood which just happened to carry 
hemophilia through her daughters, to several places in Europe and 
notably to Russia -- Rasputin first came into a place of power by his 
ability to comfort the afflicted Tsarevitch.  (By hypnosis?)


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Sibyl Smirl
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