King Charles II Was Hiding a Nightmare Within

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King Charles II Was Hiding a Nightmare Within

King Charles II was the last hope of the Spanish Habsburg Dynasty, which had ruled an ever-expanding Spain for over a century—and he wasn’t much to hope for. A victim of decades of close inbreeding, from the day he was born Charles wasn’t expected to live. When his rule did come, it was bitter, brief, and doomed everything it touched.
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Note to define inbreeding and recessive genes: from Google AI: "Recessive genes only show a trait if an individual inherits two copies of that gene, one from each parent. This is in contrast to dominant genes, which only need one copy to be expressed. Inbreeding increases the chances of two related individuals passing on the same rare recessive genes, which can lead to a higher probability of offspring displaying harmful recessive traits or diseases."