Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom was known as the grandmother of Europe. She and her husband Prince Albert had 9 children, 42 grandchildren, 85 great-grandchildren and 142 great-great-grandchildren. Many of her majesty’s estimated 1,239 total descendants married into royal families across Europe, from Russia to Spain, Norway to Romania and all over Germany. In addition to their royal mama’s short stature, beady eyes and haughty temperament, many of them carried another, more dangerous genetic legacy, hemophilia. This excruciatingly painful, often deadly disorder devastated royal families, caused the early deaths of at least 10 princes and contributed to the downfall of both the Russian and Spanish monarchies. Let’s trace the hemophilia gene along the royal family tree to find out where it came from and how many of the Queen’s descendant’s fell victim to what became known as the royal disease.

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine

Leopold Battenberg

Maurice Battenberg

Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

Rupert Cambridge

Alfonso, Prince of Asturias

Infante Gonzalo

Prince Waldemar of Prussia

Prince Heinrich of Prussia

and more?

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