Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Prince Philip

  • The Queen’s quickening: The phantom pregnancies of Mary I

    Eve ElliotDublin, Ireland In November 1554, the people of England believed a miracle had taken place. Resplendent on her new throne, Queen Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII, proudly revealed that she was with child. She was thirty-seven (past the usual childbearing age in the Tudor era) and had only been married to her much…