Note 8 — Queen Elizabeth
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These postulates are:
(a) Her supposed deformity must have been such as would allow her terrible father and her anxious mother to accept her as a daughter, although they both desperately longed for a son and heir.
(b) It must have been such as would have been known to herself.
(c) It could not have interfered with the ordinary physiological processes of her life.
(d) It must have been such as would not interfere with her living in at least tolerable health to the age of sixty-nine.