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In the summer of 1904, Alexandra—still an unsuspecting carrier of the gene—gave birth to Alexei, the czarevitch of Russia.

One of them, he told the Times, was Czarevitch Alexei, “the little boy who was the most famous hemophiliac in history.”

Theirs was Czarevitch Alexei, heir apparent to the throne before the family was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

They thought that moment had finally arrived when a funeral was scheduled last October for two long-lost children — Czarevitch Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria, whose remains were found in nearby woods many years later.

Czarevitch Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria were to be buried in the same grave.