5 dangerous diseases The European royal family suffered in history

Queen Victoria (England) suffered from a coagulation and hereditary disorder for the next three generations, while Ivan's Violence in Russia died of syphilis.

The Western aristocracy also cannot avoid the law of birth - aging - illness - death. Sometimes, the royal family suffers from scary diseases like the five characters below, according to Listverse.

 

Portrait of Queen Victoria.(Photo: Wikipedia).

Queen Victoria was noted as the first case in the British Royal family to carry coagulopathy. She inherited disease genes for three generations and contributes to coagulopathy spread to many other countries such as Russia, Spain, and Prussia through marriages of descendants.

Chromosomal disorders related to chromosome X. In women, the likelihood of developing a disease is very low due to having two X chromosomes. In contrast, men have only one X chromosome, so their risk is higher.

Having a coagulopathy, a patient lacks a blood-clotting protein so very small wounds can cause fatal bleeding.

Prince Albert: Crohn's disease

Prince Albert is both husband and cousin of Queen Victoria. He died early and suddenly at the age of 42 at the end of 1861. In suffering, Queen Victoria ordered her husband's autopsy to find out the cause of death.

At first, it was determined that Prince Albert died of typhoid. Recently, historian Helen Rappaport from Oxford University (UK) demonstrated Crohn's disease, a form of chronic enteritis that was the culprit in the death of the British Queen's wife then.

The prominent symptoms of Crohn's disease are severe abdominal pain, just like what Prince Albert spent several months before he died. Today, medicine can cure Crohn's disease but in the early nineteenth century, it was no different from a death sentence.

King James I: Porphyria metabolic disorder

Portrait of King James I. (Photo: Wikipedia).

After Queen Elizabeth died, James I officially became king of England. It is possible that he has a genetic neurological disease because both his father and one of his children have delicate legs. James I was very difficult to walk and needed help until he was 5 years old.

Some symptoms of Porphyria metabolic disorders include fever, abdominal pain and other areas with dark urine. King James I also had mental problems. Once he went hunting, he tore the belly of a deer and put his limbs in it, causing blood to spread everywhere.

During the golden age, James I also suffered from severe arthritis, mouth ulcers, and bones. Some researchers believe that the king also experienced many strokes leading to dementia. He was like a child, unable to recognize other people or decide the tide.

James I died in 1625 with enough manifestations of Porphyria disease. Before that, he also lost the ability to swallow and talk.

King George V: Pleural inflammation

King George V reigned for 25 years and had great merits in renaming the reign from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. The cause of King George V's death was determined to be due to pleurisy, in fact he was given injections to enjoy a mild death.

According to records from royal doctor Dawson, Queen Mary and Prince Edward VIII did not want King George V to suffer any more pain when the disease was irreparable. Dr. Dawson prepared the poison mixture and calculated the time of death so that the death of King George V became hot news in the morning newspapers.

Around 23:00 on January 20, 1936, the comatose king was injected with morphine and cocaine. Nearly an hour later, he came to eternity.

Ivan Tsar IV: Syphilis

Portrait of Ivan the Terrible.(Photo: Wikipedia).

Ivan Tsar IV is one of Russia's most brutal emperors, so it is called. In the 60s of the twentieth century, people found mercury in the king's body, thus giving two theories about the death of the Tsar: First, Ivan was poisoned, and he suffered syphilis for the day. Before, doctors use mercury to treat this disease.

Historical records note that Ivan the Terrible can get syphilis by forcing people in both genders to serve his sex. Some comments identify syphilis that led to personality changes that made Ivan initially intelligent and kind to become a savage killer.