Oh My, that would have made it so much worse. I was looking though the photos in the Nicholas and Alexandra book and notice a picture of little Alexi in metal braces to "help" a bleed he had. Fact of the matter is, unless you know that someone has it, you could not pick them out of the crowd. I would not think that most people would treat anyone with hemophilia any differently than any one else. \ I hope I treat folks with hemophilia the same way I treat folks with any other type of condition, be it cancer, Alzheimer's disease, AIDS, diabetes, Downs Syndrome, loss of sight or hearing, or whatever-with consideration (as I would treat anyone) and the knowledge that is just one aspect of that person's life, and it doesn't mean the rest of us are licensed to be judgmental or patronizing, or that we need to run screaming in the other direction. The odds were at least one of OTMA probably would've been a carrier. On a side note, for those who believed in the 20s and longer that Anastasia might've survived (Anna Anderson) ever thought that if she had told the truth and had her son with her, if he was hemophiliac, that would've boosted her claim. May Abel-Smith, the Spanish Infantas) their children and grandchildren appear clear of the illness. Of the females of the later generations (i.e. It seems Waldemar of Prussia was the last royal hemophiliac to die (1945 from lack of blood transfusion facilities fleeing the Soviet Army) and he had no children. In the Spanish House: Ena of Battenberg-Alfonso (suffer, no descendants), 4th son (can't remember name, sufferer, no descendants), Beatriz & Marie Christina (descendants, not apparently carriers) In the German House: Irene of Hesse-Waldemar (d.1945, no children), Henry of Prussia (d.1905?, no children), Sigismund (not sufferer) In the Russian House: Alexis, OTMA possible carriers (2) Beatrice of Battenberg-Leopold (d.1922, sufferer, no children) In the English house: (1)Leopold of Albany-Alice of Teck-Rupert (died of hemophilia, no children), dau. It appears that hemophilia has "died out" in the royal families. But then again, with the Revolution and other events, that halted some of the spread.ĭoes this make any sense? Sometimes I wonder. with WWI and the end of many ruling houses in that period it'll be hard to determine, but does it appear to anyone else that the hemophilia in the royal houses "died out" (no pun intended) after WWI ended? What I really mean is, is there any mention of the disease showing up in the family after WWI? It would be interesting to see if this disease was present for only a few decades and then went away. I'll keep track of how many "family marriages" there were and the health trends of them.īut one quick question. I'm currently working on the Romanov tree from the time of Ivan the Terrible until now. But then again, when one has to marry royal and all the ruling houses have descendents of QV, there's not a whole lot you can do. It was very interesting to see how many of her descendents married one another. I had completed one starting with Queen Victoria (OMG, over a thousand people there!), but that was before I changed computers, and unfortunately, I didn't save that tree. Anyway, one of my royal projects is to make a complete-as-possible family tree of every major ruling house in Europe. A better term, I think, would be "inherited". It calls to mind some country family where sisters marry brothers in my opinion. The term "inbreeding" doesn't really offend me, though the term doesn't seem to totally fit with the subject.
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