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<v Speaker 1>Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue, am

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<v Speaker 1>your host Mark Francis. It turns out Megan Michael might

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<v Speaker 1>just be tuning in to what the Internet has to

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<v Speaker 1>say about her and sending jam or at least something

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<v Speaker 1>that is legally fruit spread. In response, podcaster Amanda Hirsch,

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<v Speaker 1>host of the popular Not Skinny But Not Fat Show,

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<v Speaker 1>revealed that she received a handwritten letter from the Duchess

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<v Speaker 1>of Sussex herself after expressing concern about Meghan's Netflix series

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<v Speaker 1>With Love Meghan back in January, Hirsch had said she

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<v Speaker 1>was scared for Meghan of the show's potential reception. Nothing nasty,

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<v Speaker 1>just a mix of cringe and compassion. I was making

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<v Speaker 1>cringing faces at the trailer, she admitted, but I'm genuinely

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<v Speaker 1>scared she'll be ripped to shreds and to Meghan stage

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<v Speaker 1>left with a monogramm M and a pen March, Amanda

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<v Speaker 1>received a note written in Meghan's famously legant calligraphy that read,

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<v Speaker 1>Dear Amanda, I heard you, but feeling scared, don't be

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<v Speaker 1>This is the fun part. Let's enjoy it. Hersh said

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<v Speaker 1>she had to read it twice first thought, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>her second weight. Did I just get a handwritten life

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<v Speaker 1>advice from Meghan Mankle And that wasn't all After signing

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<v Speaker 1>with WMME, the same powerhouse agency that reps Meghan, Amana

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<v Speaker 1>says she got another surprise just two days later, a

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<v Speaker 1>care package of jam and t straight from the Duchess.

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<v Speaker 1>Amanda tells page six she believes Meghan's gesture was sincere.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it was genuine from her. I think she

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<v Speaker 1>was like, don't be scared, Amanda. She explained friends that

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<v Speaker 1>Meghan reportedly confirmed the note was the Duchess's idea and

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<v Speaker 1>that Meghan had told her team we should start sending notes.

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<v Speaker 1>She's got good press out of it. Hirsh said. People

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<v Speaker 1>thought it was snarky, funny, that she has a sense

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<v Speaker 1>of humor. She gets it. She's tuned in her advice

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<v Speaker 1>to Meghan keep it casual. Meghan recently spoke candidly about

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<v Speaker 1>her marriage to Prince Harry, describing the couple of being

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<v Speaker 1>in their honeymoon period just weeks before their seventh wedding anniversary.

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<v Speaker 1>On May nineteenth, on the Jamie Kern Lema Show, Meghan

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<v Speaker 1>revealed h which is secret cove Harry. That man loves

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<v Speaker 1>me so much, and you know what we've built. We

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<v Speaker 1>have built a beautiful life and we have two healthy,

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful children. I always think about it when you get

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<v Speaker 1>to the end of Super Mario Brothers, the final final level,

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<v Speaker 1>and what's the goal. It's to slay the dragons, to

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<v Speaker 1>save the princess. It's my husband. He is just out

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<v Speaker 1>there and constantly doing whatever we can to make sure

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<v Speaker 1>our family is safe, protected, that we are uplifted, and

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<v Speaker 1>still make time for date nights. However, a source told

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<v Speaker 1>Okay magazine that some of Megan's remarks surprised listeners. Megan

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<v Speaker 1>wants everyone to move on from the talk of divorce,

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<v Speaker 1>but some of what she said wasn't particularly relatable, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's probably why a lot of people were shocked. She

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<v Speaker 1>and Harry love each other and would love to put

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<v Speaker 1>an end to the speculation once and for all, because

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<v Speaker 1>it's hurtful and they've been through so much together. Meghan

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<v Speaker 1>wants to tell everyone how close they are, and she

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<v Speaker 1>speaks passionately because because that's her personality, but it doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>always land the way she wants it to. Harry is

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<v Speaker 1>dealing with quite a few difficult things, so hearing her

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<v Speaker 1>say they're in a honeymoon period was quite surprising. Megan's

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<v Speaker 1>words could well have the opposite effect of what she wanted.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of it seemed pretty over the top, but other

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<v Speaker 1>parts came across as quite flippant, especially her comparisons with

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<v Speaker 1>a Super Mario game. But she's a very positive person

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<v Speaker 1>and understandably doesn't like the negative rumors. In the same interview,

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<v Speaker 1>Meghan spoke about her own sense of self and personal

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<v Speaker 1>growth over the past year. I know that I'm a

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<v Speaker 1>great friend, and I know that the kind of mum

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<v Speaker 1>I am, and I know the kind of human being

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<v Speaker 1>I am, and I know how I show up. And

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<v Speaker 1>I love being able to be that person with the

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<v Speaker 1>people that I love. There have been so many major

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<v Speaker 1>storylines lately that we didn't get to share this gem

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<v Speaker 1>about Meghan from Claire Cohen in Vogue. It's like something

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<v Speaker 1>out of one of my nightmares. An inbox over which

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<v Speaker 1>you have no control and to which you have no access,

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<v Speaker 1>steadily filling up with emails that you can't read, file

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<v Speaker 1>or delete screen for eternity. So Sparrah thought for Prince

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<v Speaker 1>Archie aged five and Princess Little three in a podcast

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<v Speaker 1>interview with her friend, beauty entrepreneur Jamie Kerne Lima, Meghan

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<v Speaker 1>explained that she is putting together a time capsule for

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<v Speaker 1>her children with Prince Harry, sending photographs and anecdotes daily

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<v Speaker 1>to email addresses that she's created on their behalf so

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<v Speaker 1>that they may enjoy them later on. They won't be

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<v Speaker 1>able to open the inboxes until they're sixteen or even eighteen,

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<v Speaker 1>hopefully along with the trust fund, or, as Meghan put it,

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<v Speaker 1>here's everything, every moment that I wanted to tell you

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<v Speaker 1>how much I love you and like how proud I

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<v Speaker 1>am of you. She emails them most nights before bed,

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<v Speaker 1>because it doesn't have to be a heavy lift, which

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<v Speaker 1>former members of her staff, who claimed in The Hollywood

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<v Speaker 1>Reporter that Megan would fire off regular five am emails

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<v Speaker 1>might find all two familiar. Aside from how overwhelmed I

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<v Speaker 1>now feel on behalf of two children under six, I

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<v Speaker 1>think of the heavy lifting they're going to have to

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<v Speaker 1>do reading all whose emails as teenagers when they'd rather

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<v Speaker 1>be up with their friends. Meghan's Letters project says so

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<v Speaker 1>much about millennial parenting. Turns out it's not all that

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<v Speaker 1>different whether you're in Montecito or Mile End. I thought

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<v Speaker 1>it was such a great time capsule to create for

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<v Speaker 1>them because I used to have scrap books and photo albums.

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<v Speaker 1>That we're past that generation now, the Dutchess continued on

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<v Speaker 1>the podcast. There's that nostalgia again, trapping us in a

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<v Speaker 1>parenting cycle of trying to give out digital kids and

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<v Speaker 1>analog experience. Except there's a huge difference between sticking a

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<v Speaker 1>few pictures into a notebook and waking up on your

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<v Speaker 1>sixteenth birthday to your mum giving you somewhere north of

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<v Speaker 1>four thousand emails to read. At least they won't have

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<v Speaker 1>to reply to them all. I suppose more pounds in

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<v Speaker 1>just a moment. A newly published study has cast fresh

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<v Speaker 1>light on one of history's most infamous royal lineages, suggesting

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<v Speaker 1>that the distinctive facial feature known as the Hasburg jaw

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<v Speaker 1>was in fact a product of extensive inbreeding. The Hasburgs,

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<v Speaker 1>who once ruled over the vast stretches of Europe, including

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<v Speaker 1>the Spanish and Austrian empires, have long been recognized for

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<v Speaker 1>their unusual jaw lines, most notably seen in Huls, the

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<v Speaker 1>second of Spain, whose protruding lower jaw became a symbol

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<v Speaker 1>of dynastic decline. Now, researchers have examined sixty six historical

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<v Speaker 1>portraits of the Habsburgs, impaired their visual analysis with genealogical

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<v Speaker 1>data to assess whether these facial anomalies were a direct

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<v Speaker 1>result of close familial into marriage. The conclusion there is

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<v Speaker 1>indeed a statistically significant link between the degree of inbreeding

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<v Speaker 1>and the severity of mandibular prognathicism. The jutting lower jaw

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<v Speaker 1>that came to define the dynasty. Charles the Second, the

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<v Speaker 1>last of the Spanish Hasburg monarchs, was the product of

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<v Speaker 1>a union between his father and his father's niece. Geneticists

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<v Speaker 1>say his genome likely resembled that of a child born

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<v Speaker 1>to first order relatives, with medical consequences to match. His

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<v Speaker 1>ill health and infertility ultimately brought the Habsburg dynasty in

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<v Speaker 1>Spain to an end. The study, led by Professor Roman Villis,

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<v Speaker 1>analyzed eleven traits of the lower jaw and seven indicators

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<v Speaker 1>of maximiary deficiency, such as an underdeveloped upper jaw that

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<v Speaker 1>creates a pronounced overbite. Of particular interest were individuals such

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<v Speaker 1>as Naximinion, the first Margaret of Austria, childs first, Phillip

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<v Speaker 1>the Fourth and Charles Second, all of whom exhibited significant

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<v Speaker 1>craniofacial irregularities. Mary of Burgundy, who entered the family by

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<v Speaker 1>marriage in fourteen seventy seven, displayed the fewest science of

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<v Speaker 1>these deformities, providing a useful control for the research team. Meanwhile,

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<v Speaker 1>Philip the Fourth, who ruled Spain and Portugal in the

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<v Speaker 1>seventeenth century, was found to possess the most pronounced features.

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<v Speaker 1>The researchers mapped a family tree spanning twenty generations and

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<v Speaker 1>over six thousand individuals, highlighting the sheer extent of consanguinity

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<v Speaker 1>within the Habsburg bloodline. Across this sprawling genealogy, they found

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<v Speaker 1>a clear positive relationship between the inbreeding and the appearance

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<v Speaker 1>of the Habsburg jaw. Professor Villis explained, notably, the study

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<v Speaker 1>was too explored the broader implications of inbreeding. While recessive

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<v Speaker 1>genes often lied dormant in the general population, they can

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<v Speaker 1>manifest in offspring when both parents carry matching copies, a

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<v Speaker 1>risk dramatically heightened when those parents are closely related. This

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<v Speaker 1>genetic mirroring, known as homozygosity, increases the likelihood of inherited

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<v Speaker 1>diseases and physical abnormalities. Such patterns are not limited to

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<v Speaker 1>the Habsburgs. The British royal family, too, has experienced the

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<v Speaker 1>perilous consequences of intermarriage, with hemophilia, often dubbed the Royal disease,

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<v Speaker 1>traced back to Queen Victoria and spread throughout various European

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<v Speaker 1>royal houses. While the research has acknowledge that some degree

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<v Speaker 1>of uncertainty remains, particularly regarding the possibility of random genetic drift,

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<v Speaker 1>they maintain that the inbreeding hypothesis is by far the

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<v Speaker 1>most convincing explanation for the recurring facial structure. In an

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<v Speaker 1>interview accompanying the findings, Professor Villa's remarks that the Habsburg

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<v Speaker 1>dynasty offered a rare opportunity to study the long term

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<v Speaker 1>genetic effects of intermarriage with a closed population, describing the

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<v Speaker 1>family perhaps with more candor than they themselves would have liked,

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<v Speaker 1>as a human laboratory. Though they once ruled with authority

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<v Speaker 1>over much of Europe, the enduring legacy of the Habsburgs

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<v Speaker 1>may lie less in their imperial might than in their

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<v Speaker 1>cautionary tale written into their very bones. And there you

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