How Incestuous Were The Habsburgs?

To celebrate the release of Kate's new History Hit documentary, Beating Around The Bush: The History of Pubic Hair, we're revisiting a favourite episode about exactly that.Watch the documentary here: https://access.historyhit.com/videos/beating-around-the-bushFind out about the h ...  Show more

Forget celebrities running around the Highlands... come back to the 16th century Tudor court when being a traitor meant literally losing your head.Joining Kate today is Tudor historian and author Nicola Tallis, to expose the ultimate Tudor traitor: Thomas Cromwell.Why did he work ...  Show more

Royals throughout history are notorious for inbreeding. But the European royal family by far infamously incestuous were the Habsburgs (Hapsburgs). The royal house ruled Spain from 1506 to 1700 and held the Holy Roman Empire from 1452 until 1806. These two branches of the family v ...  Show more

Royals throughout history are notorious for inbreeding. But the European royal family by far infamously incestuous were the Habsburgs (Hapsburgs). The royal house ruled Spain from 1506 to 1700 and held the Holy Roman Empire from 1452 until 1806. These two branches of the family v ...  Show more

The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the Habsburg dynasty's mightiest ruler, was at once King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Lord of the Netherlands and Duke of Burgundy. With a lineage supposedly stretching back to Noah’s Ark, and a name born in Ancient Rome, the Habsburgs are one ...  Show more