Queen Victoria's Gene: Haemophilia and the Royal Family
D M Potts, "Queen Victoria's Gene: Haemophilia and the Royal Family"
2011 | ISBN-10: 0750911999 | ASIN: B0079K5M48 | 189 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
2011 | ISBN-10: 0750911999 | ASIN: B0079K5M48 | 189 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from hemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 random mutation, or Victoria was the illegitimate child of a hemophiliac man. However the hemophilia gene arose, it had a profound effect on history. Two of Victoria's daughters were silent carriers who passed the disease to the Spanish and Russian royal families. The disease played a role in the origin of the Spanish Civil War; and the tsarina's concern over her only son's hemophilia led to the entry of Rasputin into the royal household, contributing directly to the Russian revolution.