Word: haemophilia
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Have you had, he squinted his eyebrows, haemophilia, haematolysis, haemotysis, sternutation, syringitis, szopelka, ectopia? You don't have to answer; I will put down "no" to each. Have you ever felt dizzy; have you ever swooned, fainted, lost consciousness? No, the doctor said; and he wrote "no". Have you had any bone injuries, major operations, children's diseases, diseases, or social diseases? No, he said; and he wrote...
...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...
English friends of mine insist that T. M. King George and Queen Mary have seven children, two of which are imbecile in mentality. I am also told that the affliction of the ex-royal household of Spain, haemophilia, exists in the English family...
...Dreiman mend their talk. Surviving children of Their Britannic Majesties are the Prince of Wales (aged 38); the Duke of York (36); the Duke of Gloucester (32); Prince George (29) and the Princess Royal (35). The late Prince John, born to Her Majesty in 1905. was subject not to haemophilia but to epileptic fits, succumbed in 1919. Their Majesties had no seventh child...
Proudest of the ex-Kings is Alfonso XIII of Spain. Though the world is welcome to the knowledge that haemophilia taints his family's blue blood, nobody must suspect that he is financially strapped. When Alfonso broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz to her cousin Prince Alvaro d'Orléans (TIME, Nov. 16), he publicly announced that it was because she was a carrier of the dreaded disease. Not so proud was eccentric Infanta Eulalia, Prince Alvaro's grandmother. "Ridiculous!" she snapped. "Absurd! King Alfonso is not opposed. . . . We simply have been unable to make...