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2 unusual facts about Haemophilia in European royalty


Haemophilia in European royalty

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863-1950), later Marchioness of Milford Haven, wife of Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854-1921) and maternal grandmother to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, might have inherited the mutation, though if so the gene remained hidden for several generations before possibly reappearing in the descendants of her eldest granddaughter, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (see below).

Britain's Queen Victoria, through two of her five daughters (Princess Alice and Princess Beatrice), passed the mutation to various royal houses across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia.



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