Recent studies have shown that the claim that King George III suffered from acute porphyria
is seriously at fault. This article explores some of the causes of this misdiagnosis and the …

The diagnosis that George III suffered from acute porphyria has gained widespread
acceptance, but re-examination of the evidence suggests it is unlikely that he had porphyria …

Abstract In the 1960s, Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter, mother and son psychiatrists,
stated that George III's medical records showed that he suffered from acute porphyria. In …

" The attacks of George the Third are invested with peculiar interest," wrote Ray (1855)." Five
times" was the king" struck down by mental disease... and twice the recurrence of his …

The relevant papers will appear shortly in the journal History of Psychiatry but a summary of
my findings has recently been published in History Today. 4 A morning in the British Library …

The recent article in the British Medical Journal by Drs. Macalpine and Hunter (3) regarding
the sickness of King George III is of importance from several points of view. First of all, it …

Alan Bennet's play The Madness of George III, modern scholarship has proved beyond
doubt that the King suffered from acute intermittent porphyria. Or did he? Believers should …

It has been claimed that King James VI/I, an antecedent of King George III, suffered from
acute porphyria, and that the disease was passed on to George III through his grand …

Recent research has thrown considerable doubt on the claim that King George III suffered
from variegate porphyria, but indicates that he suffered recurrent attacks of mania as part of …

The illness of George III has been the occasion of much discussion and debate over the two
hundred years since what was presumed to have been the King's first attack in 1765. That …