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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: QUEEN VICTORIA'S GENE [was: George Rex]
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 13:21:31 -1000


wrote: [kaboodle is John Steele Gordon]

> Actually one of Queen Victoria's children, Prince Leopold (Apr 7
> 1853-Mar 28 1884), was a hemophiliac who lived long enough to father two
> children. His daughter Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, was
> presumably a carrier and both her sons died young, although I don't know
> of what cause.

<snip>

Both sons were hemophiliacs:

Prince Rupert Alexander George Augustus of Teck was born 24 Aug 1907 at
Claremont House, Esher Surrey. He died 15 Apr 1928 at
Bellevue-sur-Salone, France ---- 14 Days after an automobile accident.
After 16 Jul 1917, [and the change of the Royal Family's name to Windsor
from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 17 Jul 1917] he was styled as Rupert
Cambridge, Viscount Trematon.

Prince Maurice Francis George of Teck was born 29 Mar 1910, also at
Claremont House, Esher, Surrey and died 14 Sep 1910 at Schloss
Reinhardsbrunn.

Source: "Queen Victoria's Descendants" by Marlene A. Eilers, GPC [1987];
ISBN 0-8063-1202-5; pp. 131, 216 & 221

Corrections and Additions are Welcome.
--

D. Spencer Hines-----"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it
needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!" Rudyard Kipling *** Plain
Tales From the Hills (1888)

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