here was a European royal family that had this running in their gene pool at one point - can't remember which ones though...
It was ours.
Porphyria has been cited by those in the know as the most probable reason for the afflictions of poor King George III, who was deemed to be mad at the time, but whose various symptoms do seem to point towards it. Although, as I understand it, there was never any firm diagnosis then or later.
Various of his descendants have also been considered as victims, with varying degrees of evidence and whether any of the present British Royals are afflicted is a subject still of much speculation.
BTW, the 1995 movie,
The Madness of King George , which explores the theory that his madness was in fact the symptoms of porphyria, is a film worth checking out of the video library.
LabRat
