Hemophilia: The Royal Disease
Saturday, June 9, 2012
11:29 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDaCtJp0ta8&feature=player_embedded
This is a video showing that the Royal Family of Britain also had this disease from Queen Victoria. This video also shows how this disease is passed down from 1 generation to another.
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Hemophilia has featured prominently in European royalty and thus is sometimes known as "the royal disease".
Queen Victoria passed the mutation for Hemophilia B to her son Leopold and, through some of her daughters, to various royals across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany, and Russia. In Russia, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, son of Nicholas II, was a descendant of Queen Victoria through his mother Empress Alexandra and suffered from hemophilia.
It was claimed that Rasputin was successful at treating the Tsarevich's hemophilia. At the time, a common treatment administered by professional doctors was to use aspirin, which worsened rather than lessened the problem. It is believed that, by simply advising against the medical treatment, Rasputin could bring visible and significant improvement to the condition of Alexei.
In Spain, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a daughter Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, who later became Queen of Spain. Two of her sons were hemophiliacs and both died from minor car accidents: Her eldest son, Prince Alfonso of Spain, Prince of Asturias, died at the age of 31 from internal bleeding after his car hit a telephone booth. Her youngest son, Infante Gonzalo, died at age 19 from abdominal bleeding following a minor car accident where he and his sister hit a wall while avoiding a cyclist. Neither appeared injured or sought immediate medical care and Gonzalo died two days later from internal bleeding.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia
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