Family Tree: How Queen Victoria Spread Hemophilia into European Royalty (& Their Tragic Deaths)

In this video I show the family tree of Queen Victoria and how she and her children spread Hemophilia into other European Royal Families through intermarriages. I show how it spread into the Spanish Royal Family, the Russian Romanov Family and the English Royal Family. I also show why the current English Royal Family does not have this disease.

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The fact that multiple of Victorias decendants died from falling off a chair is crazy

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A little known fact is that while haemophilia is gone from royal families (though the carrier gene can go unexpressed for generations and Princess Beatrice has several female descendants who themselves only had daughters so it could still exist among her descendants) there is one known haemophiliac among Victoria’s descendants, a young man named Ferdinand Soltmann. Ferdinand is descended from two of Victoria’s children, Princess Alice and Prince Alfred. Prince Alfred wasn’t a haemophiliac, but Princess Alice WAS a carrier, so it’s most likely he inherited the gene from her. Alice passed the gene to her son Friedrich and daughter Alix, but Ferdinand is descended from Alice’s eldest daughter Victoria. Until Ferdinand was diagnosed, no one thought Victoria had been a carrier. But she passed the trait on to her older daughter Alice (her younger daughter Louise died childless and her two sons were unaffected). Alice is best known as Prince Philip’s mother, but she also had four daughters. It is the oldest of these daughters, Margarita, who married the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. They had four sons and a daughter. The daughter died childless and the three younger sons were unaffected, but Prince Kraft, the oldest son, was known by his family to have clotting issues. Kraft is the father of Xenia, who is Ferdinand’s mother. Haemophiliac men ALWAYS pass the carrier trait to their daughters, so if Kraft’s clotting issues were related to haemophilia, his daughters would have been carriers. So while the disease has not impacted the British royal family since Victoria’s children, Prince Philip’s mother and sister were carrie’s, and his nephew was a sufferer, and that nephew’s grandson is the only known living descendent with the disease.

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thank you so much for keeping the family tree up until are a life saver for my oral presentation tmr

[Shivey-Caroline--]

Very interesting' thanks for sharing'

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Interesting that they were doing blood transfusions way back then.

[Ciara]

Victoria was well aware
of this. But she absolutely
refused to believe that she
was to blame. ☠️

[Lisarojenko]

Such a good channel. Glad I found it. Lady Diana Spencer’s family tree

[EarlyMusicDiva]

Given that the Romanovs' DNA was sequenced for identification of their remains, has it been possible to identify the marker for the hemophilia gene? If so, it might be possible for living descendants of Victoria's to find out if they have it. The same could be possible for the porphyria gene that also ran in the royal family, using the DNA (if it can be obtained) of a member of the family who had porphyria.

[Furienna]

Fortunately, none of the Scandinavian royal houses had the disease even though they are descendants of Queen Victoria's sons.
But it seems like Bertie and Arthur didn't have the disease, and our king Carl XVI Gustaf is the grandson of Leopold's son Charles Edward who couldn't inherit it.

It is a possibility though that Gustav VI Adolf's second wife Louise Mountbatten was a carrier since her grandmother Alice and her aunt Alix were carriers.
But it has never been investigated as far as I know, and her only child was a still-born...

[elizabethdavis]

I heard that all of Henry the 8th six wives were descendants of John of gaunt is this true?

[ilanamillion]

The Queen was descended through the male line of Victoria's children so there is no way it could have been in the British Royal Family.

[matthew_]

just wondering why does princess alice have it when she should have xX, and the gene for hemopholia should be recessive (which means she still have one X from her father, which means she should not have the disease (?))

[mangot]

You know I want to KICK myself. I read a medical paper, that showed that Victoria did have some males that died early, from falls and such, in her family, and I didn’t save it. I THINK an great+++uncle named John, a child. This was WAY before anybody knew anything about this disease. The kid fell, and he died. 🤷‍♀️and there was a coupe others too. it can skip generations, etc. so. If anyone out there has read this paper, I’d sure love to know. Even if it came through her mother, Victoria had only one son out of 4 that had it. Out of 9 children. Two daughters were carriers. The thing is, I’m thinking more in her family, but nobody knew what it was. Who would know in 1432 or whenever. Prince Albert didn’t know exactly what he meant when the was said they needed some “dark blood” to marry within the family. All the blonds blue eyed family., I’m sure he meant hey we need to maybe expand our horizons, here . There’s only so much. And he was correct, eh? He was pretty dang smart for the time.