9. It wasn’t just wealthy men who suffered from the glass delusion – one young princess was also hit by the mental illness
Again, the vast majority of cases of the glass delusion involved wealthy men. But it wasn’t a wholly male phenomenon. Women also suffered too, as the case of Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria shows. Born in 1826, Princess Alexandra was the fifth daughter of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She was a great beauty and should have had her pick of dashing princes. However, from an early age, Alexandra struggled with mental illness. She suffered a number of afflictions, including one of the most curious cases of the glass delusion ever recorded.
