Talk:Prince Blueblood/@comment-1458758-20160519164708/@comment-26372310-20160522222121

I interpret the Faust quote as saying that he is the great-great-great-great (etc.) grandson of Celestia and Luna's maternal first cousin. Using certain terminology, this would actually make him their "first cousin 52 times removed" (approximately, anyway).

However, there *is* a practice of referring to the children of one's first cousin as one's nieces/nephews, as well as of referring to the first cousins of one's parents as aunts/uncles. This seems to extend that by a few dozen generations...