Oct 08 2009
Researchers Discover the True Identity of the “Royal Disease”
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Prince Alexei, 1911.
The princes of early 20th century Europe had a problem. The source of their wealth and power — the royal blood coursing through their veins — could also sentence them to an early death.
A mutation that spontaneously arose in the DNA of Britain’s Queen Victoria doomed many of her [...]
