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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Antony Thrower

Most inbred royals of all time had rotting insides and were so ugly they scared wives

A king who ruled Spain was unable to walk or chew his food because of hundreds of years of inbreeding - and his name was Charles.

Charles II of Spain, born in 1661, suffered a number of serious ailments throughout his life as the House of Habsburg, hellbent on keeping power, refused to marry outside of the family from 1550.

As a result Charles' aunt was also his grandmother.

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