title: A Royal Patient: Young Doctor Axel Munthe and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden-Norway
author: Ingar Palmlund
description: In A Royal Patient, Ingar Palmlund presents us the gift of a carefully crafted and psychologically astute novelistic account of a "special" doctor-patient relationship. It is a reminder of how sometimes being a "very important patient, a VIP" let alone a royal patient, does not always mean getting the best treatment. Bennett Simon, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School. Author of Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett. A brilliant take on the relationship between Crown Princess Victoria and her physician Axel Munthe, tracing their lives to the moment they meet, a meeting that changed life for them both. The way their story is told makes reading a pure delight. It was a long time since I read a text that to such a high degree engaged and enriched me. Bengt Jangfeldt, Professor of Russian Literature. Author of biographies of Axel Munthe, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Joseph Brodsky and Raoul Wallenberg. The two characters, Doctor Axel Munthe and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden-Norway, are beautifully portrayed in the context of their time and positions. The timeless tension in the intimacy of a doctor patient relationship is captured in this engaging and compelling historical novel, well-documented and carefully researched. Roberta J. Apfel, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Author of To Do No Harm: DES and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine. "With detail, passion and dedication, what a fantastic story." Anonymous buyer on Amazon.com. "Ein historischer Roman erster Klasse." Elke Rollmann on Amazon.de.
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  # The Princess And The Jewel Doctor
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Robert Hichens
  
  
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  THE PRINCESS AND THE JEWEL DOCTOR
  
  
  By Robert Hichens
  
  
  Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers
  
  
  Copyright, 1905
  
  
  In St. Petersburg society there may be met at the present time a
  
  
  certain Russian Princess, who is noted for her beauty, for an ugly
  
  
  defect—she has lost the forefinger of her left hand—and for her
  
  
  extraordinary attachment to the city of Tunis, where she has spent at
  
  
  least three months of each year since 1890—the year in which she
  
  
  suffered the accident that deprived her of a finger. What that accident
  
  
  was, and why she is so passionately attached to Tunis, nobody in Russia
  
  
  seems to know, not even her doting husband, who bows to all her
  
  
  caprices. But two persons could explain the matter—a Tunisian guide
  
  
  named Abdul, and a rather myster