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As it says on the tin. Cleopatra left children by both Caesar and Marc Antony. Antony's descent by Octavia the Younger married into the Imperial family (Marcellus, Antonia the Elder, Germanicus and Claudia Octavia), so what if, somehow, the Julio-Ptolemaic or the Antonine-Ptolemaic line were to enter into the lists? (probably more likely the latter unless you accept that Cleopatra had a daughter by Caesar: the Thea Musa Urania of record, and she marries into the Augustan line). It might not necessarily help with the incest in the Imperial family, since the Ptolemaic dynasty make the Habsburgs look like amateurs in that regard, but it makes for an interesting idea (at least IMHO).

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