Thank Victoria Hanover/Saxe-Coburg-Gotha for that whole mess as to who-is-related-to-whom.
The exception AFAIK is Juan Carlos.
And in the sixteenth century, no-one gave two hoots about England, except the Pope and the King of Castile, the King of Aragon, the King of Navarre, the King of Seville (basically, the King of Spain), because Drake kept burning his ports/annoying his ships.
And yes, they did call themselves separate countries. The 17 Provinces, for example, did not count themselves as part of Spain. Nor did Castile consider itself part of Aragon or Navarre part of the Basque.
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O to be wafted away
From this black aceldama of sorrow;
Where the dust of an earthy today
Is the earth of a dusty tomorrow!
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