Victoria marries an English man

Hemophilia Gene is usual carried through the female lines, because male carriers rarely survive long enough to reproduce, but it's a moot point because we know where this Hemophilia Gene originated, as a spontane mutation in Victoria genes. So this will have zero effect in that manners.
Hard to Say, Actually ...

Different Sperm Alone, Could have Turned Princess Alice into a Hemophiliac Prince!

The Real Issue However, Is that Western European Royalty was Spared The Worst of it ...

Blind Luck Alone, Resulted in Prince-Consort Philip NOT Inheriting it From his Great-Grandmother Alice!
 
There's also the man who would have been king in the mid-19th Century, had the will of Henry VIII been followed (and had there been no marital butterflies in the generations that followed:D), the senior descendent of Mary Tudor, George Villars, 6th Earl of Jersey (though he was born in 1808, a bit old perhaps for Victoria).
 

Keenir

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You have a point, though I came from the perspective that to marry an Englishman meant marrying a non-royal noble, hence the confusion. If you're actually looking for a royal link then you're probably right. A lot of nobles can trace their ancestry back to royalty but none really claimed to be closely linked.

yeah, I was inspired by some of Henry 8th's wives - a lady-in-waiting isn't exactly someone who would've been sitting on a throne (absent Henry's actions)
 
?Any Stuart or Plantagenet Heirs around? [Of the right Age & Gender of course]

The Hastings line are the Plantagenet heirs. But compared to the Stuart bastard lines I mentioned (and which seem to have been ignored) they are minor nobility. Look in the Order of Precedence, and you will find the Duke of Richmond and Lennox, the Duke of Grafton etc all very high up.

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We would have been better off without her

It has been 'proven' (genetics) now that Victoria was illegitimate. Had that been known at the time we would have been better off. She carried a marker for haemophilia.
http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/hanover_7.htm
The Queen's third son Leopold suffered from haemophilia and was to become a constant source of anxiety to his parents. There had been no former incidence of this disease in the Hanoverian family or that of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the mutation which caused it is thought* to have arisen in Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent. The disease generally manifests itself only in men, whereas women are known to be carriers. The Queen's daughters Alice and Beatrice were to spread haemophilia into many of the royal families of Europe, including Russia, Spain, Prussia, Battenberg and Hesse.
The odds of the Duke of Kent having a 'mutation' identical to the pre-existing haemophilia marker are small. It is far more likely that someone 'had it in for him' (cuckolded him). As a bonus Victoria was very anti-Irish (rarely visited and had no royal residence there). A more inclusive view of Ireland might have arisen with a different monach.

Could we have adopted Ernest_Augustus_I_of_Hanover (and perhaps the Salic succession)?

*As with all genetic disorders, it is of course also possible for a human to acquire it spontaneously through mutation, rather than inheriting it, because of a new mutation in one of their parents' gametes. Spontaneous mutations account for about 33% of all cases of haemophilia A. About 30% of cases of Hemophilia B are the result of a spontaneous gene mutation. A one in three chance that Victoria was born the right side of the blanket.

While few doubt the existence of a sexual relationship between the Duchess and Conroy, there is in fact no evidence to prove that he was Victoria's biological father. Two pieces of evidence are sometimes mentioned to suggest that Victoria's father could not have been the Duke of Kent.
  1. The sudden appearance of hæmophilia in the descendents of Victoria. The illness was not known to exist in the royal family before.
  2. The disappearance of porphyria from the descendents of Victoria.
With regard to porphyria (which had most notably affected George III), it did indeed continue among descendants of Victoria. One of her granddaughters, Charlotte, Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen, is believed to have suffered from it.
So much for that then.

I still say we should have insisted on Salic Law.
 
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Valdemar II

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It has been 'proven' (genetics) now that Victoria was illegitimate. Had that been known at the time we would have been better off. She carried a marker for haemophilia.
The odds of the Duke of Kent having a 'mutation' identical to the pre-existing haemophilia marker are small. It is far more likely that someone 'had it in for him' (cuckolded him). As a bonus Victoria was very anti-Irish (rarely visited and had no royal residence there). A more inclusive view of Ireland might have arisen with a different monach.

Could we have adopted Ernest_Augustus_I_of_Hanover (and perhaps the Salic succession)?

*As with all genetic disorders, it is of course also possible for a human to acquire it spontaneously through mutation, rather than inheriting it, because of a new mutation in one of their parents' gametes. Spontaneous mutations account for about 33% of all cases of haemophilia A. About 30% of cases of Hemophilia B are the result of a spontaneous gene mutation. A one in three chance that Victoria was born the right side of the blanket.

So much for that then.

I still say we should have insisted on Salic Law.

It's even bigger thanks to the fact, that in almost all cases the gene is inherited from the mother, because male carriers rarely live long enough to reproduce, and if they do they're very sickly. So this isn't proff in any way or form that she was illegitime.
 
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