Their oldest son Luis I married Louise Elisabeth d'Orleans daughter of Philippe II duke of Orleans and regent for Louis XV. Philippe's mother Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palantine would herself have been the heiress of Queen Anne had she not converted to Catholicism to marry Monsieur.
Carlos IV married Maria Luisa of Parma. She was the granddaughter of Louis XV and his grandmother was Anne Marie d'Orleans, daughter of the first Madame.
Her own mother was a granddaughter of Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans the daughter of Monsieur and his second wife Liselotte of the Palatine.
Maria Christina of the two Sicilies was a granddaughter of Carlos IV and Maria Louisa and her father had another Habsburg-descendant of Liselotte of the Palatine as his mother.
In all plenty of Spanish Royals married descendants of the Kings and Queens of England and Scotland. To be honest if you were not the exclude lines due to religion the king of Spain would be in front of the current queen in line of succession to the English and Scottish thrones.
Thanks: your examples underscore what I've suspected -- that such alliances were mostly in the long-distant past. One basically has to jump the calendar by centuries to get from the marriage of Queen Mary I of England and that of Princess Ena of Battenberg (perhaps the marriage of Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria-Teschen shouldn't count as the first since the Tudor queen, since she was only a great-great-granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain). The same can said of the marriages of Philippa of Lancaster and King Charles II of England.
Religion and politics undoubtedly got in the way to prevent more such alliances. The house of Bourbon came to the Spanish throne with the accession of King Felipe V: I understand that several cadet branches of the said house broke off from his lineage -- e.g. the duchy of Parma and the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. It seems that over the centuries, the Spanish Bourbons largely intermarried with their fellow Bourbon cousins from these dynasties. Of course, they also intermarried with the Habsburgs and Braganzas. Later on, the Wittelsbachs entered the picture, when in 1856 Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (youngest son of King Ludwig I) established the so-called "Spanish" branch of the German royal house.
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