[Domestic Church]

This is what I found on google:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3592794/British-royalty-consumed-human-body-parts-to-treat-illness-a-book-reveals.html

[Jonty30]

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/863911-british-royals-used-to-be-cannibals-dining-on-human-flesh

There’s this, filling out a bit more information on it. I think that the so-called medicinal purpose represented a dying practice of what used to be wide-spread.