Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 April 20

= April 20 =

Antibody testing for Coronavirus
Can somebody help me find a list of ALL universities and labs working on an Antibody testing for COVID-19? I know Stanford, Emory and UWash.
 * Do you actually mean ALL universities, or just all universities in the US? Fgf10 (talk) 07:46, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Either way, I doubt that there is such a list. This is unlikely to be static at the moment. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 08:34, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * The WHO website maintains a list of approved tests (pdf) by country and manufacturer. This includes antibody tests. --Lambiam 15:04, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Another illegitimate claimant to the British throne?
The question above piqued my interest. Some time ago I worked on the article Remittance man, in the course of which I found a tale of an alleged royal remittance woman. Is there any truth to this, and did any enterprising journalist track down this putative princess and her daughter?
 * Ella Higginson, poet laureate of Washington State, applied some poetic licence to the story of royal scandal publicised by Edward Mylius. The case that went to trial concerned an alleged secret marriage in 1890 between the young naval officer who was to become George V, and a daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet. As Higgison tells it, in Alaska: The Great Country (1909), when the young royal had to renounce this marriage, his beloved was given the most royal of exiles: near the City of Vancouver "in the western solitude, lived for several years--the veriest remittance woman--the girl who should now, by the right of love and honor, be the Princess of Wales, and whose infant daughter should have been the heir to the throne."

Mylius served time in jail for publishing this story. Note my use above of hedging words. --Carbon Caryatid (talk) 10:41, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * That seems historically quite dubious. For a real marriage of this type, see Maria Fitzherbert... AnonMoos (talk) 11:19, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * By the way, there isn't anything about it on the Wikipedia article, but apparently some people in the U.S. South in the 19th century and/or early 20th century were convinced that they were descended from the child of Flora Macdonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie, even though historical evidence is against any such child (for one thing, most of the time that the two were together was in a small open boat with seven other people...). AnonMoos (talk) 11:31, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Michel Roger Lafosse makes a similar claim. —Tamfang (talk) 05:06, 23 April 2020 (UTC)