HEMOPHILIA IS THE OLDEST GENETIC BLOOD DISORDER KNOWN TO MAN. IT IS CHARACTERIZED
BY THE BLOODS' INABILITY TO CLOT.
IN ANCIENT EGYPT, WOMEN WHOSE FIRST BORN SON BLED TO DEATH WERE FORBIDDEN TO BEAR
OTHER CHILDREN.
THE MOST FAMOUS CASE OF HEMOPHILIA OCCURED IN THE FAMILY OF QUEEN VICTORIA, WHO WAS
KNOWN AS GRANNY TO MOST OF EUROPES' ROYALTY.
VICTORIAS' YOUNGEST SON LEOPOLD SUFFERED FROM THE DISEASE. HE DIED FROM THE COMPLICATIONS
OF A MINOR FALL AT THE AGE OF 31.
WHEN VICTORIAS' DAUGHTERS AND GRANDAUGHTERS MARRIED INTO OTHER ROYAL HOUSES THEY
CARRIED THE DEFECTIVE GENE WITH THEM.PRINCESS ALICE HERSELF HAD A SON WHO DIED FROM HEMOPHILIA AT AGE 3. CASES ALSO OCCURRED
IN THE SPANISH ROYAL FAMILY.
IRONICALLY, VICTORIAS' MOST FAMOUS GRANDSON, WILHELM,OR KAISER BILL AS HE WAS KNOWN
TO THE WORLD ,ESCAPED THE DISEASE AS DID HIS 6 SONS. WILHELM WAS THE SON OF VICTORIAS' ELD
EST CHILD AND NAMESAKE, PRINCESS VICTORIA.
TSARINA ALEXANDRAS' DESPERATE ATTEMPTS TO SAVE HER SON LED TO HER ASSOCIATION WITH
THE SO CALLED MAD MONK, RASPUTIN, AND CERTAINLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE RISE OF LENIN AND COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA.
