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RAR24
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RAR24 asked in Society & CultureRoyalty · 1 decade ago

Does the current British royal family carry the haemophilia gene?

Update:

Aren't Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip second cousins?

Update 2:

Could someone from the UK please answer? I'm sure it has been a topic of some special on the Windsors on one time or another.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No but Juan CarlosII's(Spain) brother was a hemophilliac.His mother was a granddaughter of Victoria and I think a sister to Alexandra the last tsarina of Russia

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It is thought that it may have originated with Victoria herself (indeed there were no cases in either of her families of it). It is absent from the present Royal family because The oldest son inherits the throne and he did not have the illness (it's X-linked so sons tend to get the illness whereas daughter only get the illness if their mother is a carrier and their father is a haemophiliac - there is then a 1 in 2 chance). Despite the marrying in of the Royal family (both Queen Mary and Prince Philip are also descendants of Queen Victoria) it has not returned to the British Royal Family. To note: Female Haemophiliacs are incredibly rare, the number in the UK is in single figures. However, their life expectancy nowadays is no worse than a male haemophiliac, with appropriate treatment their life expectancy is no worse (the average is about 10 years shorter than an unaffected person).

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    No, but porphyria is still around. The Queen and Prince Philip are both related in many ways, principally they are second cousins once removed and third cousins. The queen's cousin William of Gloucester had it.Queen Alexandra (queen's great grandmother) and George of Greece (Philip's grandfather) were brother and sister and THEIR parents were second cousins both descended from George II of England's daughters Mary and Louise-thus our current royal family all descend from George I whose great grandfather was James I whose recorded symptoms were exactly like George III, as were those of his mother, Mary Queen of Scots and her father James.....in fact, earliest records indicate the source may have been John Of Gaunt. His great great grand daughter was Joan the Mad of Spain (sister of Catherine of Aragon) Her recorded symptoms are again very like those of George III. This is why the newest Royals have seen sense and married comoners...

  • Kacky
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It's still there but it's getting watered down little by little because they aren't intermarrying quite as closely. Though Prince Charles and Princess Diana were 7th cousins!

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  • 1 decade ago

    NO, it was in older days when they were more strict about who you could marry and everyone married first cousins, nieces etc. They can marry a wider range of people now, so genetic diseases are not a factor.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I haven't heard of any recent cases. And 7'th cousins, is barely cousins.

  • 1 decade ago

    Since there is no intermarrying anymore its probadly dormat.

  • 1 decade ago

    Not anymore, since they do not inter marry anymore.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    they just bleed the british taxpayer

  • 1 decade ago

    not anymore that back in the days

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