tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post7896010374022160833..comments2024-03-11T23:34:51.221+00:00Comments on Confessions of a Ci-Devant: Royal inbreeding: how reliable is one of history's most popular stories?Gareth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09102113677858015813noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-46365005186903000902014-11-09T09:03:05.171+00:002014-11-09T09:03:05.171+00:00Always interesting how much the 'common knowle...Always interesting how much the 'common knowledge' of historical fact gets twisted in the telling. <br />I guess the rules of the Catholic Church also played their part in the development of this story. But of course, those technically prohibited any marriage between partners up to the fifth degree of consanguinity or affinity (and the latter has nothing to do with inbreeding at all) so Laurianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16602295642057814667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354677738876576370.post-42039320363636079652014-11-08T01:40:33.679+00:002014-11-08T01:40:33.679+00:00One way to examine the problem of royalty marrying...One way to examine the problem of royalty marrying suitably royal partners is to look at what happened when no-one suitable was available. Or willing.<br /><br />The future Czar Peter III was so unlovable, he had to marry an impoverished, 15 year old minor princess who had no proper clothes, spoke no Russian and didn't want to leave her parents' home in Germany. Yes she was a distant Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com