Habsburgs history

What irritates me to no end is how they refused to develop street smarts. The Germanized houses always develop a sort of psychopathic narcissism that has undermined their ability to make good choices and take good advice. The real issue I see here is that the royal houses then would not set aside pointless animosity and intermarry, if only for the cynical sake of including lines that would cement the hold over the Hungarian branch of the overhyped Austro-Hungarian empire. Even worse, WWI was fought over territory, as if either empire didn't have enough already. The Russo-Japanese war was over territory, despite the fact that the Tsar already had one-sixth of the world covered in how much he already ruled. Like modern day Windsors, the royals mouthed off claiming divine right, without accepting that they live in a real world where God will at times refuse to help since they are supposed to be helping themselves. There is no guarantee if war or separatism if the Russian royals and Austrian royals would drop a pointless animosity that had long ago been exhausted. If the Austrians had married even Germanized Romanovs, I am certain that things would have, should have eased. Second, a Slavic Russian noble would have in fact been better and a lot of the requirements for an ideal imperial consort should have been eased. As long as it was a member of 'the club,' I am certain that there really shouldn't be problems. The real problem of inbreeding was caused by the heightened requirements of royal consorts and as a result, stupidity and other recessive genes became prominent, and the entire Habsburg Spanish branch was killed off by inbreeding. 

The relentless refusal to let go of heightened, unrealistic standards is what has in fact ended up making such a mess of things. When he was Prince of Wales, King Charles could have married a lot of Protestant princesses from dethroned royal houses and could have taken more responsibility to date and marry foreign princesses with more than enough British lineage that could be traced back but regrettably Charles was hopelessly localized and failed to put himself out there and make a sincere effort. What makes this worse is that the emperor who married Sisi did not think beyond his enjoyable infatuation with Sisi and married disastrously. So many messes could have been avoided. The level aside, if he had sought out and married a Hungarian consort, noble, princess (of which there were surely many) then it would have bound the Hungarians to the Habsburgs genetically, that is what would have been made to count. Same with modern royalty. They refuse to accept that marrying each other is not the same as pre-WWI inbreeding. It really is not. Frankly put, if Madeleine of Sweden had married Prince William there would not have been any real issue of inbreeding making a mess and second, Sisi was the epitome of the girl next door, and no public figure should date/marry the girl next door who has not proven herself capable of much of anything. If Charles had married Caroline of Monaco, I think it would have saved things because Caroline would never have stepped out of line or been unable to handle Camilla. In fact, I think Camilla would still be a long-term mistress, not a Queen Consort.

The problem with dethroned families is that they refuse to see that they were instrumental in facilitating revolutions that were avoidable if they had done their job. If the then-reigning royals had maintained peace at all costs and defused escalation, WWI would not have happened, and Nazism and Japanese Imperialism would have been better contained or defused. Therefore, WWII would not have happened with the butchery of the Holocaust, and we know the loss of life in the battlefield as well. When royals refuse to do their job, suffering always occurs after the dismantling of each dynasty. All this would be avoided if they would DO THEIR JOB and stop making bad choices and if they stopped having a bad attitude towards their positions in life, it would be easier on everyone. For all that everyone whines about communism, if the royals looked after their people, communists would not get a foothold. Politicians understand this, but for some reason royals become too stupid to realize and accept this. The dethroned families also refuse to accept that they had their time, failed, and should just chill with their status and do their part and train for a position within government in addition to their ceremonial responsibilities. For some reason they are just not smart or adaptable enough to do this.