Queen Victoria's Gene (eBook)

Haemophilia and the Royal Family

Professor D M Potts, W T W Potts (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011 | 1. Auflage
192 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-7196-9 (ISBN)

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Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 random mutation, or Victoria was the illegitimate child of a haemophiliac man. However the haemophilia gene arose, it had a profound effect on history. Two of Victoria's daughters were silent carriers who passed the disease to the Spanish and Russian royal families. The disease played a role in the origin of the Spanish Civil War; and the tsarina's concern over her only son's haemophilia led to the entry of Rasputin into the royal household, contributing directly to the Russian Revolution. Finally, if Queen Victoria was illegitimate, who should have inherited the British throne? The answer is astonishing.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: British royal family • haemophilia and the royal family • haemophiliac • illegitimate • Prince Leopold • Queen Victoria • Queen Victoria, Prince Leopold, haemophilia and the royal family, illegitimate, haemophiliac, silent carriers, Spanish royal family, Russian royal family, royals, british royal family, Spanish Civil War, tsarina, Rasputin, royal household, Russian Revolution, women in history, women’s history • Queen Victoria, Prince Leopold, haemophilia, royal family, illegitimate, haemophiliac, silent carriers, disease, Spanish royal family, Russian royal family, royals, british royal family, Spanish Civil War, tsarina, Rasputin, royal household, Russian Revolution • Rasputin • royal household • Royals • Russian Revolution • Russian royal family • silent carriers • Spanish Civil War • Spanish royal family • Tsarina • Women in History • Women’s history
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-7196-1 / 0752471961
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-7196-9 / 9780752471969