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soldierant

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9. Of what country?

Reply to speak easy (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:24 PM

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Charles III of Spain was also incapable of fathering a child, and that resulted in The War of the Spanish Succession. He was definitely the end of that road.

And by that time all the reigning Hapsburgs wee so deformed, I don't know who would have been able to continue. If you do, pleas let me know.

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