Setting aside questionable casting, pace, acting, the premise of Nick's hemophilia being due to descendancy from the Romanovs is total BS. They either didn't do their research or the writers were just really depending on the audience not having learned more about the Imperial family other than hemophilia was present and they were killed by revolutionaries.
Hemophilia only entered the family through Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Tsar Nicholas II. She was born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine to Princess Alice of the UK, a daughter of Queen Victoria, who was the origin point for the disease in the British Royal Family. Nicholas II was the first cousin of George V of the UK as their mothers were sisters, Princess Dagmar and Princess Alexandra of Denmark, but he was not descended from Victoria, and no one else but Tsarina Alexandra's children could have passed on the gene to the Romanov descendants. Today's descendants can only come from Nicholas's cousins and niblets, none of whom were known carriers.
So, this lady is either A) definitely not a Romanov, or B) picked up the hemophilia gene through a different part of her family, or C) is descended from a secret love child of either Alexandra or her daughters. No matter what, the sap about her kid being sick because she's a Romanov is just lazy writing on what could have been a compelling storyline.
Hemophilia only entered the family through Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Tsar Nicholas II. She was born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine to Princess Alice of the UK, a daughter of Queen Victoria, who was the origin point for the disease in the British Royal Family. Nicholas II was the first cousin of George V of the UK as their mothers were sisters, Princess Dagmar and Princess Alexandra of Denmark, but he was not descended from Victoria, and no one else but Tsarina Alexandra's children could have passed on the gene to the Romanov descendants. Today's descendants can only come from Nicholas's cousins and niblets, none of whom were known carriers.
So, this lady is either A) definitely not a Romanov, or B) picked up the hemophilia gene through a different part of her family, or C) is descended from a secret love child of either Alexandra or her daughters. No matter what, the sap about her kid being sick because she's a Romanov is just lazy writing on what could have been a compelling storyline.