Weekly Wikipedia Find: Royal intermarriage

I like the idea that all of the royalty of Europe is interrelated. It is a highly insular aristocracy, paranoid to such a degree for fear of that taint which is plebeian blood.

The purity of bloodlines. Such a class distinction. A limit on social rising. One can only rise so high. You Icaruses need not even apply.

Of course, when it comes to such purity, there is only a limited supply. Royal intermarriage eventually means royal interbreeding. Interbreeding of course being incest. Fuck your cousin (Not that there's anything particularly wrong with that. Certainly not against the law most places, even less so past beyond first the rest of places. I'm just saying).

Sure the occasional cousin fucking might be a-okay with your genepool. The problems start to arise with the constant cousin fucking. Thats when you get things like the Habsburg lip in your House of Habsburg. And that doesn't clean out easy. Tends to leave a stain.

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