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* Emperor Peter III of [[Tsarist Russia|Russia]] was a staunch Prussophile militarist, had a personality which oscillated between [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and [[Ax Crazy]], hated his wife [[Catherine the Great]], and led an erratic and inconsistent internal and foreign policy. He was deposed in palace coup orchestrated by Catherine and then murdered in prison. His son Paul I was a staunch Prussophile militarist, had a personality which oscillated between [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and [[Ax Crazy]] (with hints of [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]), hated [[My Beloved Smother|his mother]] [[Catherine the Great]] (and tried to undo many of her reforms) and led an even more erratic and inconsistent internal and foreign policy. He was murdered in a palace coup [[Self-Made Orphan|tacitly supported by his estranged son]] Alexander I, who, after assuming the throne, promised that "everything will be done as it used to be done by my grandmother". Unsurprisingly, both Peter and Paul are subject to lots of [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] and [[Vindicated by History]].
* A strangely endemic situation in the Philippines, owing to the existence of warlords and political dynasties. Many present-day figures tend to either be children of, or at least descended from, long-standing families like the Cojuancos, Macapagals, Aquinos and even the Marcoses.
* Four generations of the British royal family went through a weird cycle of sad parent/son conflicts. It started with that [[
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