Gail, you are correct that it was Queen Victoria's daughter Alice who was the mother of Princess Alix who became the czarina of Russia. Alice married Louis IV of Hesse-Darmstadt. Alice's son Friedrich Wilhelm had hemophilia and her daughter Irene was a carrier. Victoria's youngest daughter Beatrice's daughter Victoria Eugenie married Spanish king Alphonso XIII; two of their sons had the disease, but I have not heard of problems in the present Spanish royal family. I'm looking at the book PRINCE LEOPOLD, by Charlotte Zeepvat, 1998, which has great family trees in the back showing who had and who carried the disease. Since the carrier is at least usually the mother, the disease would come from her mother's German family. That family tree has many men suspected of having hemophilia. The fact that Prince Albert was also from that family probably did not contribute to the spread of the disease. As far as I know, none of the above people lived in that part of Grainger County which became Hamblen County in 1870. :) Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Roorda" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [TNGRAING-L] Death Cause > Dear Elnora, > > It is probably not correct to say that the hemophilia was caused by > intermarriage (apprarently the appearance of hemophilia in Queen Victoria's > descendents was caused by a spontaneous mutation since up to that time it > had been unknown in the British Royal family). The fact is that Royals > married other Royals and at this time the British were at the height of > power and influence. Queen Victoria's large family intermarried into many > European Royal families causing many of their male descendents to be > afflicted with this disease. > > However, not all the daughters were carriers apparently. Kaiser Wilhelm > didn't have this disease so apparently Princess "Vicky" did not pass this > desease onto her son. I don't remember which German Prince was the father > of Princess Alix later to become Alexandra the Czarina of Russia, but the > English Princess he married (Princess Alice??) was a carrier so hemopilia > entered this family. > > Actually I have forgotten about half of the history I once knew so before I > take a chance on making some erroneous statements I think I will do sme > "lookups" <grin> Actually rather than looking for a book or something there > ought to be quite a lot on this topic on the web so bye for now while I look > about. > > Gail > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John & Elnora Wyrick <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 20:17 > Subject: Re: [TNGRAING-L] Death Cause > > > > Could that be "Hemophilia", so prevalent in Royal Families > > due to much intermarriage? > > > > I would be interested in knowing for sure also. > > > > Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick > > > > > > > > > > > ==== TNGRAING Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE please send your message to [email protected] >