PURPLE SECRET: Genes, "Madness" and the Royal Houses of Europe

ROHL, John C. G., Martin Warren, David Hunt

ISBN 10: 0593041488 / ISBN 13: 9780593041482

Edité par Bantam Press, London, 1998

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Very good condition, octavo, in very good dust wrapper, burgundy boards, slight tanning to edges, xvii plus 297 pages. A study of Porphyria in the Royal Houses of Europe. [QP].

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: PURPLE SECRET: Genes, "Madness" and the Royal Houses of Europe
• Éditeur: Bantam Press, London
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0593041488
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780593041482
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Royalty

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Synopsis

In the 1960s a theory was advanced that King George III suffered from a rare incurable blood disorder known as porphyria. It is an inherited disorder, and questions such as were his ancestors or descendents affected also, and with what consequences are addressed. Taking advantage of the developments in DNA sequencing techniques the porphyria strain is traced through the geneological maze of Europe's royal dynasties. This leads the text to the family of the German Kaiser, to the exhumation in Poland of a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and to Patients A and X, present-day descendents of the houses of Hanover and Windsor. In a collaboration between science and history, they reach the conclusion that the royal houses of Britain and Europe are still haunted by the ghost of George III.