married Prince Henry of Prussia and introduced the gene to the German royal family. Irene's two sons also battled with hemophilia. Alice's other daughter, Alix, became Tsar Nicholas II of Russia's ...

The Royal Hemophilia A disease caused by the inheritance of a defective X chromosome, it has plagued European royalty for three generations. Queen Victoria was the first carrier of the mutation ...

These are pedigree branches showing transmission of putative hemophilia from Queen Victoria of England to her descendants in European royal families. This image relates to an article that appeared ...