Royal deases of England

1.	Royal deases of England
Answer» Hemophilia is sometimes referred to as “the\xa0royal disease,” because it affected the\xa0royal\xa0families of\xa0England, Germany, Russia and Spain in the 19th\xa0and 20th\xa0centuries. Queen Victoria of\xa0England, who ruled from 1837-1901, is believed to have been the carrier of hemophilia B, or factor IX deficiency.\xa0She passed the trait on to three of her nine children. Her son Leopold died of a hemorrhage after a fall when he was 30. Her daughters Alice and Beatrice passed it on to several of their children. Alice’s daughter Alix married Tsar Nicholas of Russia, whose son Alexei had hemophilia. Their family’s entanglement with Rasputin, the Russian mystic, and their deaths during the Bolshevik Revolution have been chronicled in several books and films. Hemophilia was carried through various royal family members for three generations after Victoria, then disappeared.

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