On February 6, 1952, at age 25, Elizabeth acceded to the throne. Soon after, they had their first two children, Charles and Anne. The move made the young princess, who was just 10 years old, the next in line.įrom this moment on, her life changed as she began training to be the next monarch.Įlizabeth married Prince Philip a couple of years after World War II ended and he had returned from serving overseas in the navy in 1947. But after her grandfather died and her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated - both within the same year - Elizabeth’s father became King George VI. Le Guyader and The Hemophilia Association of New York (HANY).When Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born, she was not a direct heir to the throne since her father was the second son of King George V. My research and outreach include recent contacts with members of Victoria’s family, including living members of her nearly unknown German line. That hemophilia can persist for generations without symptoms and is sometimes forgotten, needs careful understanding. Her female descendants continue to be born to this day in unbroken royal female lines directly back to the queen. Women should be vigilant about this! Victoria’s mother was possibly a female carrier with inherited hemophilia. The high figure of 30% of hemophilia cases described as first-time mutations, likely reflects incomplete family histories. Broadening histories across collinear lines, aunts, uncles, and cousins are key. Giving family histories further back than two or three generations helps unveil hemophilia and avoids the first mutation tag. The British royal family also tried to distance itself from Germany, despite several family ties. The hope was that her female descendants would prove attractive spouses for all European royal families, and hemophilia interfered with that agenda. Information about Victoria’s hemophilia was managed for political reasons. The collaboration between the three leading medical communities of the day in America, the UK and Germany, was spotty, and this would last past WWII. At the time, the label hemophilia was still new, and controversial. On the son’s side, no others had hemophilia and his line died out. The family situation of Victoria’s German siblings masked the condition. The true extent of Victorian hemophilia would not become evident for nearly 50 years when a spate of male descendants, European royals, succumbed quite publicly. The death of Victoria’s half-brother occurred in the 1850s near the end of Victoria’s child bearing years. He died from apoplectic shock consistent with hemophilia. The local hospital successfully stopped the first bleed but could not stop the second. The son, however, is reported to have died from bleeding from his internal organs in his early 50s. Few medical details are publicly available about the daughter’s line. She had two offspring with a German prince, a son and a daughter. The more complex truth is that she was also a German princess and one of three of her mother’s children. She is also correctly described as her father’s only child. The unlikely monarch was a female who outlived many male descendants of the king to become queen. The queen was the daughter of a British prince. Physicians in the 1800s, and later, neutralized her blame or responsibility for hemophilia by using the mutation tag and pointed out that she gave birth to many children before she learned about it. Victoria herself asserted that she knew of no hemophilia in her family. Medicine describes Victoria as a female carrier who introduced hemophilia into her family as the result of a gene mutation. It suggests a call out to people with hemophilia – please give deeper, broader, and more complete family histories! The Received Truth This has implications for reporting the mutation rate causing hemophilia (30% seems too high). It is unlikely that the United Kingdom’s Queen Victoria was a first-time carrier of hemophilia in her family. This article reports a new key fact about hemophilia.
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