The high figure of 30% of hemophilia cases described as first-time mutations, likely reflects incomplete family histories. Broadening histories across collinear lines, aunts, uncles, and cousins are key. Giving family histories further back than two or three generations helps unveil hemophilia and avoids the first mutation tag. The British royal family also tried to distance itself from Germany, despite several family ties. The hope was that her female descendants would prove attractive spouses for all European royal families, and hemophilia interfered with that agenda. Information about Victoria’s hemophilia was managed for political reasons. The collaboration between the three leading medical communities of the day in America, the UK and Germany, was spotty, and this would last past WWII. At the time, the label hemophilia was still new, and controversial. On the son’s side, no others had hemophilia and his line died out. The family situation of Victoria’s German siblings masked the condition. The true extent of Victorian hemophilia would not become evident for nearly 50 years when a spate of male descendants, European royals, succumbed quite publicly. The death of Victoria’s half-brother occurred in the 1850s near the end of Victoria’s child bearing years. He died from apoplectic shock consistent with hemophilia. The local hospital successfully stopped the first bleed but could not stop the second. The son, however, is reported to have died from bleeding from his internal organs in his early 50s. Few medical details are publicly available about the daughter’s line. She had two offspring with a German prince, a son and a daughter. The more complex truth is that she was also a German princess and one of three of her mother’s children. She is also correctly described as her father’s only child. The unlikely monarch was a female who outlived many male descendants of the king to become queen. The queen was the daughter of a British prince. Physicians in the 1800s, and later, neutralized her blame or responsibility for hemophilia by using the mutation tag and pointed out that she gave birth to many children before she learned about it. Victoria herself asserted that she knew of no hemophilia in her family. Medicine describes Victoria as a female carrier who introduced hemophilia into her family as the result of a gene mutation. It suggests a call out to people with hemophilia – please give deeper, broader, and more complete family histories! The Received Truth This has implications for reporting the mutation rate causing hemophilia (30% seems too high). It is unlikely that the United Kingdom’s Queen Victoria was a first-time carrier of hemophilia in her family. I had never realised how inter- related they all were! Purchaser at Romsey Abbey.įamily trees 16 ORDER QUEEN VICTORIA’S FAMILY TREES Queen Victoria’s Family Trees £12.This article reports a new key fact about hemophilia. The last Tsarina of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna (born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine), was a granddaughter, while her sister Victoria of Hesse was the mother of Earl Mountbatten of Burma and the maternal grandmother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.Ī lovely book: the Gift Shop at the Queen’s Sandringham estate, Norfolk. The kings of Romania and Yugoslavia were also descended from Victoria and Albert, and the last Kaiser of Germany was their eldest grandchild. Those children’s children and grandchildren were encouraged to intermarry, and from them descend the Royal Families of Britain, Greece, Spain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Within six months she had married him and was pregnant with the first of their nine children. Twenty years later, the young Queen Victoria was completely bowled-over by her handsome cousin and wrote in her diary that he was ‘beautiful’. Her mother and his father were sister and brother. In 1819 Princess Victoria of Kent and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha were born within three months of each other. The Bare Bones of Queen Victoria’s Family Trees: Her Children and Grandchildren
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