Hemophilia in historical context The most notorious carrier of hemophilia B was Queen Victoria, who passed the disease to three of her offspring. Prince Leopold succumbed to an injury-induced ...

it has plagued European royalty for three generations. Queen Victoria was the first carrier of the mutation, 'which may not yet be extinct ...

Queen Victoria restored the reputation of a monarchy ... Victoria carried the haemophilia gene, which affected 10 of her male descendants including the son and heir of Russian Tsar Nicholas ...