WHAT LAY BEHIND THE KING’S MADNESS?
Sep 30, 2021
2 minutes
rom the mid-1960s until 2010 it was generally believed that “The King’s Malady” from which George III suffered in 1765, 1788-89, 1801, 1804 and 1810-20 was the rare blood disease porphyria. This was a consequence of a theory vigorously promoted by Dr Ida Macalpine and her son Dr Richard and the subsequent movie adaptation in 1994, in both of which porphyria was presented as the concluding diagnosis of “The King’s Malady”.
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