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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