After I finished reading, I realized that all of the witches prophesies came true in Macbeth except for the one the said Banquo would never be king (which is true) but his descendants would. I wondered if I missed something in the book, but when I looked it up I realized something pretty interesting. As we know, Malcolm becomes king after Macbeth, and he is actually roughly based on Malcolm III of Scotland who happened to have a younger brother Donald III, but neither are descendants of Banquo, nor will the next 19 generations however eventually we get to a dude named James VI who also happened to be James I of England and legend says he was a descendant of Fleance, even though it is basically accepted that Banquo and Fleance probably weren't real.
As interesting as this is (to me at least), I found it on reddit so I'm not sure how accurate it is.
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