![]() ![]() Maurice's haemophila is disputed by various sources. Killed in action in World War I in 1914 at the age of 23. Victoria Eugenie's two daughters, Infantas Beatriz and Maria Cristina of Spain, apparently were not carriers, as none of their descendants have had the disease.Died at age 19, bleeding to death after a car accident. Died at age 31, bleeding to death after a car accident. Infante Alfonso of Spain, Prince of Asturias.Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (later Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain), who passed it on to.Princess Beatrice (later Princess Henry of Battenberg), Victoria's ninth and last child, passed it on to at least two, if not three, of her children: Her daughter Lady May Abel Smith, Leopold's granddaughter, apparently was not a carrier, as the disease has not appeared in her descendants. Prince Rupert of Teck (died at the age of 20, bleeding to death after a car accident)Īlice of Albany's youngest son Prince Maurice of Teck, died in infancy, so it is not known if he was a sufferer.Princess Alice of Albany (later Countess of Athlone), who in turn passed it on to her oldest son:.He lived to the age of 30, long enough to pass the gene on to his only daughter: Leopold, Victoria's eighth child, was a haemophiliac. She died of diphtheria at the age of four. Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, Alice's seventh and last child, may or may not have been a carrier. She was childless when killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (later Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia), may or may not have been a carrier. If she did, she does not appear to have passed it on to her descendants. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (later Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven), Alice's oldest child and maternal grandmother to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, apparently did not inherit the mutation. (Ian Vorres, The Last Grand Duchess, 1965 p. One of Alexandra's daughters, Grand Duchess Maria, is thought by some to have been a symptomatic carrier, because she haemorrhaged during a tonsillectomy. It is not known if any of Alexei's sisters were carriers, as all four were executed with him before any of them had issue. Alexei's haemophilia was one of the factors contributing to the collapse of Imperial Russia during the Russian Revolution of 1917 (according to Massey, Nicholas and Alexandra, 1967). ![]() Murdered by the Bolsheviks at the age of 13. Instead she married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and passed it on to her only son: Alix had a marriage proposal from Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the future King Edward VII had she accepted, haemophilia could have returned to the direct line of succession in Britain. Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (later Princess Heinrich of Prussia), who passed it on to two of her three sons:.Died before his third birthday after a fall from bleeding on the brain. Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine.The disease passed on to her daughters Alice and Beatrice and her son Leopold.Īlice, Victoria's third child, passed it on to at least three of her children: Three of Victoria's children were unlucky. Her sons King Edward VII, Alfred, and Arthur were not haemophiliacs. Victoria's sixth child, Louise, died without issue. Victoria's fifth child, Helena may or may not have been a carrier two healthy sons survived to adulthood but two other sons died in infancy and her two daughters did not have issue. Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria apparently escaped the haemophilia gene as it did not appear in any of her descendants. Descendants of Victoria's maternal half-sister, Feodora, are not known to have suffered from the disease. The probability of her mother having had a lover who suffered from haemophilia is minuscule, due to the low life expectancy of 19th century haemophiliacs and the lack of any haemophiliacs in European royalty before Victoria. Queen Victoria's father, Edward, was not a haemophiliac. Victoria appears to have been a de novo mutation, as her mother, Victoria, was not known to have a family history of the disease. For this reason it was once popularly called "the royal disease". Queen Victoria passed the mutation to her son Leopold and, through several of her daughters, to various royals across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia. Haemophilia figured prominently in the history of European royalty. ![]()
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