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Which among the following is called a Royal disease?

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It’s believed that Queen Victoria was the carrier of hemophilia and passed the disease onto her children. The family pedigree of Queen Victoria shows a number of haemophilic descendents as she was the carrier. This tagging of royalty terms haemophilia as a Royal disease.

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