Why did Queen Anne and other royals in and around her time have so many miscarriages and still births? Was it the inbreeding? Was there something in the water?
Did they use leaded powder or other shit?
Shitty genetics and medicine
How many of these were actual “miscarriages” and how many were self induced abortions that they lied about so they didn’t get burned at the steak o algo? You know how women are…
>>18661486Since royal families usually married between themselves there was a smaller gene pool and a lot of genetic diseases kept reappearing. The most famous example of this is how half of Europe's monarchs in the 19th/20th century had haemophilia. It's not known for certain but Queen Anne is believed to have had another genetic disease of the blood that affected her children in the womb. >>18661995Definitely not in Anne's case, the woman was distraught over both her miscarriages and when her living children died. Plus they had ways to carry out abortions long before the child reached 9 months even back then.
>>18661486Royals were under huge pressure to produce an heir, the women were impregnated quickly after a birth without getting any chance to physically recover.
>>18662030Any idea on what that disease might have been?
>>18661486In Anne's case her morbid obesity probably didn't help her fertility issues.
