The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

The kingdom of the two sicilies was meant to restore to the map of europe a kingdom that had existed off and on, going all the way back to the 11 hundreds. The territory stayed split through the screwy twists and turns of mediaeval politics until the rising spanish came along in the 15 hundreds,. Then join them together under the personal union of a monarch, without technically unifying the kingdom. What is significant about this? Well, let us turn in our hymnals to episode five point two. Because this very charles slides over and becomes king charles the third of spain.