Emperor Sleeps With Step-Grandma

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was rumored to have had an affair and fathered a daughter with his step-grandmother, Germaine de Foix, when he was around 17 and she was 29. Before that, Germaine had been married to Ferdinand II of Aragon-who was both her husband and her grandmother's half-brother-making him her half-granduncle. The tangled web of royal bloodlines and alleged scandal was jaw-dropping, even by European aristocracy standards.

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