Carlos II was succeeded by the grandson of his oldest half sister Felipe V of Borbon. The various lines descending from him did continue the habit of marrying in the family. If you look at Alfonso XII's official genealogy it's quite baffling. His parents were double first cousins. His grandfathers were brothers, his grandmothers sisters and their parents were also first cousins. To top it off the grandfathers were the maternal uncles of the grandmothers.
Yes, the Spanish royal family seems to have been very slow or maybe just too stubborn to learn the lesson of what happened to their Habsburg predecessors. As I just mentioned in my reply to Manuel, they were perhaps very lucky not to have ended up with another Carlos II!
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