Michael Gray - Blood Relative - The Tsars grandson?

[mcdnab]

From memory but i think it is extremely rare for Haemophilia to pass from Father to son - it is always passed through the mother I believe.

However I believe that daughters of haemophiliac fathers always inherit the gene.  Leopold Duke of Albany did not pass the disease to his son Charles Edward DUke of Saxe Coburg Gotha however his daughter Alice Countess of Athlone was a carrier and her son did have the disease whilst her daughter wasn't a carrier.

[Halinka]

From memory but i think it is extremely rare for Haemophilia to pass from Father to son - it is always passed through the mother I believe.

However I believe that daughters of haemophiliac fathers always inherit the gene.  Leopold Duke of Albany did not pass the disease to his son Charles Edward DUke of Saxe Coburg Gotha however his daughter Alice Countess of Athlone was a carrier and her son did have the disease whilst her daughter wasn't a carrier.

Oh! Thank you so much for correcting me! I won't make that mistake again. I'm sorry.

[joye]

I have just finished reading Blood Relative.
Some extraordinary claims are made.
1 That King George V's father was "Nixa" the betrother of Minnie, sister of Q. Alexandra. She is of course his mother. The reason being that this is WHY Geo V and Nicholas II look so much alike  their mothers are sisters and their fathers were brothers.
The list of people of interest in the 1st pages of the book is in complete and I think very selective.
I found myself querying almost every statement.
Annoying read. glad to finish the book.

[Ilana]

Good grief... poor Nixa...so having it off with Princess Alix??  Sorry for the vulgarity, but for people to bandy this sort of allegation around at this point is horrifying!

[Vecchiolarry]

Hi,

This is pretty foolish and downright vulgar really.

The timelines of all this need to be explored.
George V was born in June 1865;  therefore conception would be August/September 1864.
Nixa and Dagmar were engaged in the summer of 1864 in Denmark;  and even if Alexandra was visiting her parents then, she would have had her newborn baby boy (Eddie) with her and probably the Prince of Wales too...
Also, there would have been Mama (Louise) & Papa (Christian) hovering around all of them, not to mention several servants.

Add to that was that Nixa was reputedly an honourable man and wouldn't have been dallying with his fiancee's sister....

This is just my opinion, of course;  but I dare say someone here can do more of an investigation as to who was actually in Denmark in the summer of 1864...
Nixa and dagmar for sure, but were Alex and Bertie there then??


Larry

[JonC]

Interesting! I remember that Bertie, The Prince of wales, while under the Typhoid Fever and thought to be delirious accused his wife, the Princess of Wales, Alexandra of adultery. This was November, 1871..I wonder what he meant? JonC.