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Famous face of hemophilia

By Essence foster

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Did you know that Queen Victoria and many of her descendants carried what was once called “Royal Disease” now known as hemophilia, a blood clotting disorder. But it has remained unknown precisely what variety of the diseased relatives may have had the inherited disease.

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Did you know that Abraham Lincoln the sixteenth president of United States of America was hemophilic. Despite his delicate condition his success fully led his country through its greatest internal. Crisis, the American civil war. He is remembered for his great leadership during civil war of 1980’s and for his emancipation proclamation that led to freeing of confederate slaves.

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Tsarevich Alexei, a Russian prince, the youngest child and the only son of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandria Feodorovna, suffered from hemophilia. He inherited hemophilia from his mother, a condition that could be traced back to her maternal grandmother queen Victoria.

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Ryan Wayne White was an American teenager from Kokoma, Indiana was a Hemophilic. He became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after being expelled from school because of his infection. Ryan surprised the public by living five years in excess of what doctors had predicted and died in 1990

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Prince Leopold (1 on chart) , the first of Queen Victoria's descendants to suffer from haemophilia, was described as delicate child who remained a constant source of anxiety to the Queen throughout his life, evidence exists that Leopold also suffered mildly from epilepsy, like his grand-nephew Prince John (the youngest son of King George V). He was first diagnosed with haemophilia in 1858 or 1859, Queen Victoria consequently placed restrictions on him, which he chaffed at. He was later created Duke of Albany and married the German princess, Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont. Leopold died in 1884 at the age of 31, in the south of France. He suffered a fit, the cause or the consequence of a fall on some stairs at Cannes, injuring his knee and hitting his head and died the following morning, apparently from a cerebral haemorrhage.

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