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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the 1980s ABC Prime Time So Opera, Dynasty.

The series centered on the wealthy Carrington family of Denver, Colorado, a patriarch oil tycoon, and a cast of feuding family members.

Let's just say that I feel as I do because we have so much in common.

Such as what? Our blood, our genes.

But that dynasty for all its drama and dysfunction had nothing on the real life dynasties we're going to talk about

today, like the Habsburgs, the family that ruled much of Europe for centuries.

These people are so powerful.

I mean power over tens of millions of people

and gazillions of acres of land.

This royal family, however, was a little too close. The final Habsburg ruler of Spain, who

died in 1700, is considered to be the most inbred royal ever.

His Habsburg jaw was so pronounced that his two sets of teeth couldn't touch at all.

He couldn't keep food in his mouth.

In this episode, we're going to look at the practices of

intermarriage and inbreeding among several major royal families and how these

practices built and in some cases led to the unraveling of their respective empires.

The strategy for survival and for enhancement of power becomes, especially in the Habsburg case, the recipe for its undoing.

From CBS Sunday morning and I-Heart, I'm Moraka, and this is Mobituatories.

This Mobitut, the Habsburg jaw and the death of a dynasty. Royal Families and inbreeding. Are they kind of like peanut butter and jelly? There are two great tastes that went great together, Mo, for a really long time.

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