Celebrity Weddings

[tabby]

If you read novels set in the English Regency period (Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer are my comfort reads), you run into cousin marriage all the time.

[chitowngirl]

Look at the European royals, especially Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. They are all cousins through Queen Victoria.

[Carolinian]

There are cousin marriages in the 19th c part of my ancestry. My father's observation was that it kept the land in the family.

[Deleted]

Pretty much all of the still existing royals in Europe are related to each other either through Queen Victoria or King Christian IX. Or both. I think that’s why more of them have been marrying non-royals in recent times, they finally got sick of all the in-breeding.

[Alexis Machine]

Whenever royal inbreeding is mentioned I think of King Charles II of Spain whose family tree looked like a knot. The best description I've seen was this:

His father was also his great uncle. His maternal grandmother was also his aunt. His mother was also his first cousin. His paternal grandparents were also one set of his maternal great grandparents as well as his mother's in-laws.

[Gigiree]

Aug 7, 2020 13:58:29 GMT -4 Alexis Machine said:

Whenever royal inbreeding is mentioned I think of King Charles II of Spain whose family tree looked like a knot. The best description I've seen was this:

His father was also his great uncle. His maternal grandmother was also his aunt. His mother was also his first cousin. His paternal grandparents were also one set of his maternal great grandparents as well as his mother's in-laws.

Which also explains why he looked like Squidward.

[Deleted]

Yes, apparently he had various physical and facial deformities, like a severely misshapen jaw that made both eating and speaking difficult. Sounded like he had other issues as well. IIRC, he was married at a young age (political alliance) but most likely never consummated the marriage. Probably he physically wasn't capable of it.

[horseface]

Aug 7, 2020 15:26:18 GMT -4 @stargirl said:

Yes, apparently he had various physical and facial deformities, like a severely misshapen jaw that made both eating and speaking difficult. Sounded like he had other issues as well. IIRC, he was married at a young age (political alliance) but most likely never consummated the marriage. Probably he physically wasn't capable of it.

He was said to have was was termed the "habsburg jaw", and other medical and behaviour problems. Marie Antoinette also was said to have had this malocclusion. Her's was not nearly as severe, but she was reportedly self conscious about it.

[Deleted]

Interesting historical tidbit! I did not know that about Marie Antoinette.

[divasahm]

Aug 7, 2020 13:58:29 GMT -4 Alexis Machine said:

Whenever royal inbreeding is mentioned I think of King Charles II of Spain whose family tree looked like a knot. The best description I've seen was this:

His father was also his great uncle. His maternal grandmother was also his aunt. His mother was also his first cousin. His paternal grandparents were also one set of his maternal great grandparents as well as his mother's in-laws.

Just gonna leave this here...