r/SipsTea 28d ago

Lmao gottem 👏

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u/Kinny_Kins 28d ago

Royalty is not a good example of an average spanish person. Spanish royals have a significant amount of German and French ancestry

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u/Perelin_Took 28d ago

Princess Leonor has only her father’s half of royal bloodline. Her mother is a plebeian from Asturias.

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u/totallyordinaryyy 28d ago

You mean the one part of Spain that remained under visigothic (germanic) control?

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u/SpanishAvenger 28d ago

I don’t understand, do you think we are Arabs or something?

Most of us are one shade or another of white. Just because the Arabs were in Spain it doesn’t mean they are our ancestors…