European royalty

Submitted by Mohammed Wazir Ahkspaidar (Australia), Mar 20, 2014 at 20:11

"...I do not know of any religion that encourages or state that inbreeding is good or recommended...."

The British Royal Family would probably have taken steps to silence you on that 200 years ago. And so would several other royal houses in Europe - so many off them are related by marriages to close relatives.

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