The Indian royals who modelled for first vaccine in the world
Krishnaraja Wodiyar III was the new ruler of the southern Indian kingdom of Mysore when Devajammani arrived at the royal court in 1805, to marry him. Both of them were 12 years of age.
According to Dr Nigel Chancellor, a historian at Cambridge University, "Devajammani soon found herself recruited for a more momentous cause -...