HASTINGS: Do you seriously reckon you or anyone can hold up the other kind of mirror to [the Queen] now that’d show her the truth?
WILL [slowly]: What if you could? What if you could make her say, This is me?
—Rowan Williams, Shakeshafte
Shortly after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one of the twins had a potentially fatal congenital heart defect.