Royalty are special and weird, and a drop in the bucket. Overall the ban was pretty successful, it created a world where a few Hapsburgs behaved this way, inste

Royalty are special and weird, and a drop in the bucket. Overall the ban was pretty successful, it created a world where a few Hapsburgs behaved this way, instead of every guy in a village with three cows to his name. Their family trees are weird and alien to us because we live in this new world. Whereas I don't think many of his subjects thought that Saddam Hussein's family tree was freak-show material.