With the accession to the throne of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on June 20, 1837, a new historical vein was opened that conditioned the hegemonic power of the European monarchies. The first as a carrier of hemophilia and the second when exercising her matronazgo with the invention of photography from 1839.
Queen Victoria's great-great-grandmother passed hemophiliac on to three of her five daughters (Victoria, Empress of Germany, Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse) and one of his four sons, Leopold, Duke of Albany.