Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold died in 1884 after complications associated with hemophilia. He was born at Buckingham Palace in 1853 as the eighth child and youngest son of Victoria and Prince Albert, and inherited hemophilia through his mother.
Leopold's condition made ordinary injuries dangerous and prevented him from pursuing an active military career. In February 1884, he travelled to Cannes on medical advice, hoping the warmer climate would ease his joint problems. On 27 March, he slipped and fell at his residence, injuring his knee and striking his head.
He died in the early hours of 28 March 1884, aged 30. The immediate cause was apparently a cerebral haemorrhage, with hemophilia contributing to the fatal outcome. Thus, 1884 is the correct year even though the simplified phrase “died from hemophilia” conceals the precise medical sequence.
Leopold's only daughter, Princess Alice of Albany, inherited the hemophilia mutation and passed it to her son Rupert. His posthumous son, Charles Edward, was born four months after Leopold's death.