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TIL that brothers Alfonso and Gonzalo, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria through their mother, Victoria Eugenie, died in almost exactly the same way—a car crash that led to fatal internal bleeding—almost exactly four years apart. They both had hemophilia, a genetic condition.

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