[HPforGrownups] marriage in families and WW generations

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 86802

In a message dated 12/09/2003 8:38:09 AM Central Standard Time, 
aldhelm at earthlink.net writes:


> Cousin marriages were normal among the Muggle landed classes in Britain 
> into the 
> 19th century (it was a way to keep property in the family; cf. the 
> assumption that Mr. 
> Darcy will marry his cousin Anne de Bourgh in _Pride and Prejudice_), so I 
> wouldn't 
> see anything odd about the practice persisting in a very conservative and 
> self-
> 

To relate it to the Muggle world the Queen and Prince Philip are 3rd cousins. 
 Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra, George V and Mary were also cousins (descended 
from George III)    


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