Bloodletting (was Who of Royal Blood for William?)

[alshainofthenorth]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley"
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Alshainofthenorth (lovely handle that) wrote:
> 
> > (When Queen Victoria conducted politics by
> > marrying off her children, hemophilia spread to a lot of Royal 
> Houses
> > on the Continent, so it can be rather risky as well...)
> 
> Risky?  It seems entirely consistent with the historic British 
> approach to European power politics...
> 
> corcaroliofthearmchair

Weaken your enemy by any means possible? :-) 
If I had to choose a disease to cripple my potential enemies I'd take
something that was a bit more predictable than hemophilia and didn't
have the possibility to backfire on me. Or just a violently mutating
influenza virus.

Alshain (liked the star, Aquila and the Summer Triangle ever since I
got an interest in stars and astronomy. Orion and The Great Dog are
gorgeous, bright constellations, but in these latitudes they signal
the onset of the long, dark Northern winter. Seeing Aquila rise in the
late-night sky means you've survived another year.)