Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday" channel.

Oh they did, it's hard not to, there was A LOT of pseudoscience invented just to justify keeping it in the family. Even most primitive tribes have traditions about marrying outside their village to avoid incest.
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But she's the only one of Ptolemies whose children did NOT rule Egypt because Marc Antony lost to August.
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@helene4397 however, they were allowed a chance to have a happy, or at least decent marriage, even if arranged. This one didn't get that chance.
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@bibaoreo4355 Ironically, the ruling British family are the inbred Germans and Diana was the first ENGLISH in the British royal family, her kids also married women who weren't their cousins and possibly their children will not be freaks now, thanks to Diana not being inbred like the Windsors.
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Wait, WHAT?! Plantagenets introduced Jury trials a thousand years ago and many countries today still fail to do it?!
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MrZapparin she was with TWO men. After her first guy got chopped into Ceasar salad, she married a dude and stayed with him until they died.
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@TheKappybook of course relationships weren't just about sex, but the teacher-student thing... You described pederasty. The main reason homosexuality was so much frowned upon in history, because of association to old men having sex with adolescent boys as a "rite of passage". It's creepy and still continues today in the form of hazing in some armies and is the basis of prison rape culture. It's not an equal relationship, to say the least.
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@charbrim100 this video is part 2. Literally watch the FIRST part, where Siamese King was trying to hide his harem of sister-wives from British in 20th century, and how native American royals were inbreeding between sessions on human sacrifice, and Japanese sister-wives, and how Egyptians fucked themselves into oblivion... Marrying cousins is one thing, a Pharaoh marrying his daughter he had from his sister, becoming a grandfather to his own son is another. It was madness! Or shall we discuss the kid wives of Muslim rulers? Muhammad had a 9 year old one... Point is most cultures did creepy stuff, it's just that Europeans, since way back in ancient Rome, had less tolerance for incest and polygamy then most other cultures.
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This. Nazis always marry their relatives to keep their rotten blood then blame the Jewish people with healthy kids for everything.
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@dominiquewindom8320 you do understand that majority of Egyptians are not black, you, croissant of history? Because 90% of modern Egyptian DNA is native to Egypt. Also, NO, a European person living in North or South Africa doesn't make them stop being white, lmao. Charlize Theron and Arnold Vosloo are South African but they don't look like people native to Africa, duh. Ptolemies before Cleopatra didn't even bother to learn Egyptian language. They were absolutely, by blood and culture, Hellenistic Macedonians. It wasn't the first time nor the last when foreigners ruled Egypt. Oh and among rulers of Egypt there were Nubian dynasties, who were ACTUALLY BLACK and they built MORE PYRAMIDS than native Nile delta Egyptians to the point there are more pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt. Why don't people learn history of the dynasty that was actually sub-Saharan African instead of trying to claim Ptolemies were African?!
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Her first husband-brother was her political opponent, who went into civil war against her and was like 13 when he died.) He ordered beheading of Pompei to bribe Ceasar but he didn't like receiving that head as a gift. Cleopatra was chased away from Egypt, she didn't attack Ptolemy herself.
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I always assumed that English stopped ruling Britain in 1966 and the only Englishman to ever rule the British since was Oliver Cromwell. It may change, though, cause Diana's kids are also half-English, though their father is, of course, from the inbred German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty his parents being cousins, as explained in other video on this channel. But yeah, I guess it's as unbroken as the Native blood in 1/64th-Native Americans.)
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@Anna-tc6rz that's wrong. Incest aka cosanguinuity (blood mixing), was one of the main reasons for marriage annulments in Middle Ages, since Catholics couldn't divorce, proving that a couple was too much related was one of very few ways of manipulating line of succession. There was a whole commission that determined the degree of relation and it could be swayed one way or other to allow or disallow the union. Generally, marrying a brother or sister was forbidden, but cousins were a-ok. Now then, most Pharaohs in ancient Egypt did marry their sisters, as in Middle East, bloodline was considered to go by maternal lineage, and the creepiest thing was when they married their own daughters they had from their sisters, becoming fathers to their own grandsons.
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Reason royals were full-on into debauchery and free love was because they could not marry by heart at all, as since childhood they were pawns for alliances, their marriages decided for political reasons. Peasants could marry freely, of course noting current tradition and superstitions. Besides, it's not like Inquisition was going around ransacking villages in search of sexual deviants, common folk could and probably did a lot of taboo stuff, it just didn't get written down.
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@lostusaslambus children_were_ considered to be separate from gender dichotomy for social roles in most cultures though. Ever heard the phrase "women and children"? Children were often treated as genderless, while, of course, keeping in mind their biological sex. Example, in polygamic cultures, boys were raised in harems until puberty. In the west, dresses weren't just utilitarian, little princes were prettied up and dressed in girlish clothing in general. If they were just for utility, they could have sewn tunics or male robes for them. But nope, frilly dresses and curled, feminine hairstyles. They were really just not considered to be men until some point.
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Their mother, Diana, was the first English member of British royal family. It was all-German before. Elizabeth's dad kinda became king after his predecessor was deposed for being too close a friend of Hitler, IIRK. It became much harder to support the 'purity of royal German blood' argument after Holocaust.
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Henry was a PoS, claiming to be a Saint while screwing out his war hero Crusader brother (contrary to popular belief, the first Crusade was about defending Byzantine Empire from invasion of Suljuk Turks from Asia).
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No, it was the other way around. Marrying someone for alliance was the only way to make them think twice before going to war. Notice how the biggest wars in Europe: Napoleonic and World War 2, both happened as a result of monarchies being abolished here and there.
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@Danny30011980 also the original flag of Netherlands. Orange stripe faded and became yellowish green from salty water on long voyages in the oceans so it was changed to red that faded to orange. 🇳🇱
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They also both looked like a taller, less ugly version of Medvedev, russian PM for life, the sleepy bear.
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AB. B. Isn't it the infamous Steinmeier, a protégé of Schroeder, the manager of russian Gazprom?! THE Steinmeier, a guy whose infamous "plan" for splitting Ukraine is used as leverage against Ukrainians in upcoming Normandy gas treatues?.. Sorry, dear, German president is appointed by Gazprom, not by Bundestag, a cardboard version of which was symbolically burned by russian army to show what they think of German Parliament while former Chancellor is actually working in Rosneft' now. A russian oil conglomerate. Oil & gas companies are the royals of current fourth Reich.
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Pharaohs marrying their own daughters they had with their sisters is the most creepy thing. Asking for it.
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Yeah, chemistry was bad, people put horrible stuff on skin, from Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut dying from poisonous ointment on her skin, to radium girls and using radioactive makeup last cemtury.
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It WAS true for Gaddafi, though it was a bayonet. And just a few years ago.
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Modern beauty standards. Medieval times, chubby people were a rarity. Also many kings were inbred and ugly. He managed to look halfway decent while being thicc and imposing, plus shining with prosperity. Also, power. As said above, families tried to make it by throwing daughters at nobles, especially true in Christian countries where polygamy was banned. In China or Middle East they'd just stuff harems with dozens to thousands of concubines, made of widows, prisoners of war, noble daughters and stuff.
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Impaling was fairly common in Eastern Europe.
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No, no, the Plantagenets were replaced by Germans who are ruling Europe for last 800 years or so.
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The Pasty British Guy From Wonderwoman fraud, basically. Like, you have a wife in one city, never divorced, married another woman in other town, but polygamy is illegal. If it will be found out you were already married when you had the ceremonies then the second marriage would be illegitimate.
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@winterweib the last INBRED GERMAN to rule Spain, you mean.
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Power struggle, basically. Not ideological, political reasons. Some families were Catholic, some Protestant and supporting the clergy of either would up your legitimization of rule.
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