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Nothing to me says 'sexy' quite like your grandad and your great-grandad being the same guy, or your (great * 5)-grandmother / grandfather being one man and woman, when most people have that responsibility spread between 64 people.
Close family. Must have made Christmas easy - having the in-laws round isn't so bad when they're your own blood relatives too.
Ah yes the “family wreath”
Quite difficult at the time, actually.
Small domino: Greek bloodline fuckery.
Middle Domino: Hollywood.
Big domino: Incest porn.
Yeah I can't remember the reasoning / evidence but I do remember reading that Cleopatra was unlikely to have been beautiful or "sexy". IIRC it's indeed because she was likely to have congenital deformities due to inbreeding - much like those of Tutankhamen.
She was extraordinary powerful, well educated, and had a terrifying intellect. Additionally she would have bathed daily which would have been alluring in that era.
That said, there's no shortage of other powerful Egyptian babes, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut come to mind.
Edit: Plutarch the Roman historian said something diplomatic like physical beauty is not her most striking feature. Which, when talking about a ruler, is saying she's ugly.
No Cleopatra VI?
Historians haven't been able to definitively conclude whether V and VI were the same person or if VI was a child of V and older sibling to VII by extension.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_VI
Damn how the hell did Berenice sneak in there?
Bere nicely.
But think of how simple were their finances.
See it relative; sexy if the other world leaders all did the same.
Incest is best!