Recent bbc2 program sez Queen Victoria was a carrier of the Bleeder gene ?

Victoria’s eighth child Leopold had hemophilia and suffered from frequent hemorrhages, which were reported in the British Medical Journal in 1868. Leopold died at the age of 31 of a brain hemorrhage. HIs daughter Princess Alexander of Teck (née Princess Alice of Albany) was a carrier, and her son, Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon, was born with hemophilia. He died in 1928, of a brain hemorrhage similar to the one that killed his grandfather.

Two of Queen Victoria's daughters, Alice and Beatrice, were carriers of hemophilia. They passed the disease on to the Spanish, German, and Russian royal families, with tragic results. At the time there was no effective treatment for the disease.

If you are interested, you can look at a chart showing the hemophilia allele in Victoria's descendants here:

http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Hemophilia_in_Vict...

Yes, she was a carrier of haemophilia and as you say she could pass it only to boys. Why on earth wld it be a cure for psychosis? Never heard that one.

The Kaiser just wanted to rule the world - like two more lots of Germans since - stopped now, thatnk goodness.

Mo

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Yes she carried the gene. The effects of this were felt all over Europe (still are in Spain) and in the case of Russia is seen as a factor in the downfall of the Romanovs who turned to Rasputin for help with Alexis.

It doesn't "only" show in males, sometimes but rarely, women are carriers and sufferers too. Two of her daughters were carriers. It used to be thought that this was due to inbreeding but, it is now known that it is a spontaneous change in the genes.

It's well known that this was the case, with tragic consequences too.

Yes is a KNOWN fact....