But total nonsense about the late Duke of Gloucester. He didn't have porphyria and he was not Queen Elizabeth II's cousin. There were rumors about Prince William of Gloucester, but the story was never substantiated.
The writer of this story, which appears in a local New Jersey newspaper, apparently has no real grasp of Russian and Spanish history.
http://www.recordernewspapers.com/articles/2008/10/09/hunterdon_review/news/doc48ece516e2dda154287504.txt
"Although the odds are 50 percent that an offspring of a carrier mother will inherit the disease, it turns out that only three of Victoria’s children inherited."
ReplyDeleteWe'll never know about Princess Louise, and the jury's out on Princess Helena too IMHO.