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royal bleeding disease :: Article Creator Hemophilia: Breakthrough Therapies Aim To 'dethrone' The Disease Of Kings © ÓSCAR CORRAL (EL PAÍS) Hemophilia patient Iván Torcal stopped receiving blood clotting treatments while participating in a new clinical trial that enables him to forego medication; A Coruña, Spain. A London wedding on February 10, 1840, put hemophilia center stage of an international political drama. Queen Victoria of England married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and unwittingly passed on a defective gene to their children that causes a disease that impairs the body's ability to control bleeding. The couple's nine children married and spread hemophilia throughout other European monarchies. Despite their royal power, these nobles could do little to combat incapacitating hemorrhages and premature deaths. Almost two centuries later, in a town near A Coruña (Spain), a security system operator has become one of the ...