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Victoria's appears to have been a spontaneous or de novo mutation, most likely inherited from one of her parents, and she is usually considered the source of the disease in modern cases of haemophilia among her descendants. Queen Victoria's mother, Victoria, Duchess of Kent, was not known to have a family history of the disease, although it is ...
Other obstacles to a marriage were religion (Alfonso was Roman Catholic, and Victoria Eugenie was Anglican); and, the potential problem of haemophilia, the disease that Queen Victoria had transmitted to some of her descendants. Victoria Eugenie's brother, Leopold, was a haemophiliac, so there was a 50% probability that she would be a carrier ...
A. N. Wilson suggested that Victoria's father could not have been the Duke of Kent for two reasons: The sudden appearance of hæmophilia in the descendants of Victoria. The illness did not exist in the royal family before. The supposed disappearance of porphyria from the descendants of Victoria. According to Wilson, the disease was prevalent in ...
The presence of the disease in Victoria's descendants, but not in her ancestors, led to modern speculation that her true father was not the Duke of Kent, but a haemophiliac. [230] There is no documentary evidence of a haemophiliac in connection with Victoria's mother, and as male carriers always had the disease, even if such a man had existed ...
The most obvious of Queen Victoria's descendants is, naturally, the current queen of England. Directly descended from Edward VII, Queen Elizabeth is Victoria's great-great granddaughter.
Historian A. N. Wilson suggests that Victoria's father could not have been the Duke of Kent for two reasons: The sudden appearance of hæmophilia in the descendants of Victoria. The illness did not exist in the royal family before. The supposed disappearance of porphyria from the descendants of Victoria. According to Wilson, the disease was ...
Hemophilia B, also known as Christmas disease, [11] a blood clotting disorder caused by a mutation of the Factor IX gene and leading to a deficiency of Factor IX. It is rarer than hemophilia A. As noted above, it was common among the descendants of Queen Victoria. Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which is associated with mutations in the dystrophin ...
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