Even if not so exaggerated, it was also evident in Alfonso XIII, whose mother was a Habsburg, the daughter of two Habsburgs.
Given all the problems with past inter-breeding you would have thought the Spanish royal family would have learned their lesson and avoided anymore Habsburg unions. Instead, the Spanish Borbons astonishingly followed the previous dynasty's policy of uncle-niece unions and double first cousins. Alfonso XIII was probably lucky to have avoided the fate of Carlos II!
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