As for Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria: consider how both his mother and paternal grandmother were born Infantas of Spain. But although his Spanish royal ancestry was not strictly patrilineal, Spain honors a person's maternal heritage (consider the practice of a child adopting both his father's and mother's surnames). Did that make him born a Spanish prince, and legally a Bourbon as well -- even though, like his Italian kinsman, he was not an Infante of Spain by right?
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