Word: battenberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victoria, carried this curse to the blood of the imperial Russian and royal Spanish families. Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse and was the mother of Alexandra, last Empress of Russia, who in turn transmitted hemophilia to her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis. Princess Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenberg, son of Grand Duke Alexander of Hesse, and was the mother of Victoria of Spain, who passed on the curse to her son, Prince Alfonso, onetime heir to the Spanish throne, and the late Prince Gonzalo. Last week the ancient curse pointed up in a new form as the House...
Princess Beatrice is the widow of Prince Henry of Battenberg, is the mother of former Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and resides, unless I have been misinformed, in Kensington Palace, London and Carisbrooke Castle, her official residence as Governor of the Isle of Wight. She is the youngest child of Victoria, and with her sister was among those included in the present King's Coronation honours list...
...days before her seventh birthday, Mary MacArthur made her stage debut unknown to the audience in the last scene of Victoria Regina, when, as Princess Ena of Battenberg, she walked on, spoke no line but curtsied to her mother, Helen Hayes, in the title role. Backstage afterward Actress MacArthur received telegrams, flowers, an unwelcomed reminder that her mother had made her debut...
...cold, unimaginative Victoria Eugenie, Princess of Battenberg, brought her husband woe too. She was never really popular among Spaniards. She brought the King the dread haemophilia (easy bleeding) of her house, bore him a haemophilia heir, a second son who was a deaf mute, finally two whole boys, two fine girls capable of passing on their mother's haemophilia...