Which country were Cleopatra's ancestors from?
Cleopatra, who was the queen of Egypt (69 BC - 30 BC), was not ethnically Egyptian but a white woman descended from Greek (Hellenic) ancestry.
The ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, famous for her beauty and intelligence, was a 4th generation descendant born of incestuous marriages. Cleopatra was not only the daughter of her brother and sister, but her parents also had complex blood relationships, being born between their own sisters and brothers. And her grandparents were also born between their sisters and brothers. However, it is said that Cleopatra's natural beauty and wisdom had nothing to do with the intermarriage that had continued for a long time.
Cleopatra married two of her brothers and later killed them. She drowned Ptolemy XIV and poisoned Ptolemy XV.
The royal custom of marriage between brother and sister was consistently maintained while the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt. This was due to the fixed belief that since the king was considered a person who inherited the bloodline of god (i.e., the son of god), his partner could only be his sister, the daughter of his father, who had the same origin of birth.
Therefore, none of the ancient Egyptians found these consanguineous marriages strange. Looking at other Egyptian dynasties, we can see that marriages between brothers and sisters continued for 13 generations.
However, it is said that all the children born between them were intelligent, and this custom continued until the moment when only males were born among the next descendants, creating a situation where there were no sisters to marry.