DON CARLOS OF SPAIN, Prince of Asturias | Why inbreeding is bad. Mary I’s stepson. Spanish Habsburgs
The Spanish Royal House is reeling from the revelation of a 16th-century tragedy that experts now say was a catastrophic consequence of centuries of royal inbreeding. Newly analyzed historical records paint a harrowing portrait of Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias, the only son of King Philip II, as a deeply unstable, physically deformed young man … Read more