Furienna
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If none of her brothers have haemophilia, I doubt she's a carrier.
Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg (nee Weiller) is a descendant through the female line of Queen Victoria. As far as I know none of her three sons have Haemophillia. It is possible that her daughter, Princess Charlotte could be acarrier.
Princess Sibilla is a descendant of Queen Victorias youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, through her daughter, Princess Victoria Eugenie who became Queen of Spain.
l have this in my family on my mother's side.
my grand mother as it and my mother as well as
my brother and is three girl's.
And my younger brother as it as well as his
new baby boy.
And i have it as well as my older son.
billie-jo
It is even more amazing to think how successful Victoria's and Albert's genes have been given the fact that her granddaughters gave haemophilia to two crown princes, and several other more distantly descended offspring. It has also been mooted that Victoria also passed on the genetic disposition towards porphyria to some of her German descendants.
Hmmm, you're right. And didn't Victoria even have an older half-brother, who would have been a sufferer, if her mother had been a carrier?
She had an elder brother and sister,
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich, Prince of Leiningen
- Princess Feodora of Leiningen
An uncle of king Juan Carlos I of Spain had it
Dyslexia, while some researchers believe it may be genetic as there is a lot of examples of it running in the family, has not been proven to be true. Many dyslexics are very intelligent, so Gustav having been intellectual doesn't rule it out.Haemophilia is the most known one, but there could be others. The dyslexia, that King Carl XVI Gustaf and Crown princess Victoria suffer from, comes from the king's father, Prince Gustaf Adolf. But where did he get it from? His father, King Gustaf VI Adolf, was very intellectual and sure not dyslectic. Maybe he had inherited it from his mother, the Brittish princess Margareth of Connaught? I don't know if she was dyslectic or not. But it's also very possible, that it started with Prince Gustaf Adolf.
There is no way of knowing this. Females can be carriers and pass it along. I hope we don't see it reappear but it could be quite possible.I believe that the gene has completely disappeared from the descendants of Queen Victoria.
I haven't said, that a dyslexic can't be intelligent. But especially back in the day, when people had no understanding for this handicap, and sufferers hardly got the help, that they could have gotten today, I'm afraid it wasn't all that common, that dyslexics became intellectual. Since a lot of intellectual knowledge has to be gained through reading, I think many dyslexics have just given up, if it was hard for them to get through a book or a magazine, and done other things instead. And back in the day before there was radio and TV, people couldn't learn things through listening to a radio show or watching a TV show either. Many dyslexics say one hundred years ago just got a low-paying job, where they didn't have to read much, or they focused on being good at other things instead. That was what prince Gustaf Adolf, our king's father, did to avoid feeling like a totally failure. He wasn't only a prince, but also the heir appearant, so everybody had high expectations for him, and like I said, his father was a very gifted scholar, who alledegedly had very high expectations on his sons and nephews to be as "perfect" as he was. So poor Gustaf Adolf must have been very ashamed of being as "stupid" as he was. He ended up becoming a very good athlet instead, and that was probably partly because he wanted to compensate for his short-comings, when it came to reading. Carl XV seems to have suffered from dyslexia as well, so even though he's not a direct ancestor of the current Swedish royal family (his brother Oscar II is), the handicap seems to have been around in the Bernadotte family for a very long time.Dyslexia, while some researchers believe it may be genetic as there is a lot of examples of it running in the family, has not been proven to be true. Many dyslexics are very intelligent, so Gustav having been intellectual doesn't rule it out.
It is possible today to do a genetic test to see if a woman is indeed a carrier of haemophilia or not, so if a woman suspects that she has haemophilia in her family, it's easy for her to find out if she is a carrier or not. If she is a carrier, she can then decide if she wants to have children or not, and if she wants childen, she can for example choose to have IVF and choose to have only daughters or have a genetic testing done before the implanting a fertilized egg. For more info: Heredity of hemophilia - Canadian Hemophilia SocietyThere is no way of knowing this. Females can be carriers and pass it along. I hope we don't see it reappeare but it could be quite possible.
Exactly. And Furienna to answer your question: yes, if Victoria's mother had been a carrier, it's very likely that Charles of Leinigen would've been a sufferer, but he wasn't, (as Feodora was not a carrier) so it's unlikely that their mother would've carried the defective gene.