10 Royal Families Whose Genetics Changed European History

King Harold

King Harold

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10 Royal Families Whose Genetics Changed European History

A masked ball in Stockholm. January sixteenth, seventeen ninety-two. King Gustav III of Sweden walked into the opera house and was shot by a conspirator in the crowd. He died thirteen days later. The assassination felt political, and it was. But behind it lay something older and stranger: a dynasty that had been destroying itself from within for generations, producing rulers whose brilliance and instability arrived in equal, devastating measure, as though the same inheritance that gave them genius also gave them a fuse.