For the Plantagenets, sprung from devils; the Borgia, St Peter's successors; the Stewarts, in turbulent minorities and glittering courts alike; the Medici, from medieval bankers to renaissance power-brokers; the Tudors, of the line of Welsh princes but who sat the English throne; for Capet and Valois and Hapsburg and Abbasid, and medieval dynasties of every shape and kind, for what would the history books be without their rise and fall?

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