There was no evidence and her claims were dismissed. In 1879, after a great deal of discussion between the Queen, the Prince of Wales, their households and the Government, the royal brothers were sent as naval cadets on a three-year world tour aboard HMS Bacchante. ". [61] In Bangalore he laid the foundation stone of the Glass House at the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens on 30 November 1889. [35][36] Letters exchanged between the Treasury Solicitor, Sir Augustus Stephenson, and his assistant, Hamilton Cuffe, make coded reference to Newton's threats to implicate Albert Victor. Prince Albert Victor Over the years, different versions of his personality, mental stability, and manner of death have appeared. Wyatt Redd is a freelance writer from Nashville, Tennessee. Behind it all, the scandal centered around the young grandson of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert Victor. Wikimedia CommonsPrince Albert Victor around the time of the Ripper Murders. Most of Knight’s justification is based on circumstantial evidence and speculation. Mary later married his younger brother, who became King George V in 1910. When young, he travelled the world extensively as a naval cadet, and as an adult he joined the British Army, but did not undertake any active military duties. 133–135; Harrison, pp. Sexual perversion in the royal family From 1989 to 1998 Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell published the graphic novel From Hell in serialized form, which is based on Stephen Knight's theory. Hélène travelled personally to intercede with Pope Leo XIII, but he confirmed her father's verdict, and the courtship ended. On 21 November that year, a child – the first of nine – was born. It was with Prince Albert Victor the dukedom’s reputation took a real battering. She became queen on George's accession. [59] He was entertained sumptuously in Hyderabad by the Nizam,[60] and elsewhere by many other maharajahs. The exact nature of his "dissipations" is not clear, but in 1994 Theo Aronson favoured the theory on "admittedly circumstantial" evidence that the "unspecified 'dissipations' were predominantly homosexual". According to the report, "The Prince's sallow face turned scarlet and his eyes seemed to start from their orbits," and he had one of his companions upbraid the fellow for impertinence.[48]. By this time however, Albert Victor was falling in love with Princess Hélène of Orléans, a daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, a pretender to the French throne who was living in England after being banished from France in 1886. "Victorian Scandal Revealed". Prince Albert of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock of South Africa are scheduled to wed today in Monte Carlo despite revelations in the French Press earlier in the week that the never-before-married Prince Albert, 53, may have fathered a third love child. Howard, Philip (11 March 1975). Had they been wise, hearing what I knew and therefore what others knew, they ought to have hushed the matter up, instead of stirring it up as they did, with all the authorities. From the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne, but did not become king as he died before his father and grandmother. Day, Peter and Ungoed-Thomas, John (27 November 2005), "Letters to the King: Haddon bound over". Essentially, they suggest that the Ripper was probably the exact kind of person that police always suspected was behind the crime. Rumors of homosexuality (which was then illegal) followed Albert for much of his adult life. Knight suggested that there was a wide-reaching masonic conspiracy to hide these murders by pretending there was a deranged serial killer on the loose. Following his grandmother Queen Victoria's wishes, he was named Albert Victor, after herself and her late husband, Albert. [24] In 1888, he was awarded an honorary degree by the university. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales married Princess Alexandra of Denmark on 10 March 1863 at Windsor Castle. "[84] It was labelled "a scandal of the first magnitude ... on the lips of every clubman",[84] and compared to the Tranby Croft affair, in which his father was called to give evidence at a trial for slander. There’s also no concrete proof that any of the women murdered by the Ripper knew anything that would make Masons want to kill them. Knight’s book is probably closer to an effort to make a quick buck on sensational claims than an attempt to get to the truth. Lydia Manton was the petite amie of a certain young prince, and that, too, quite recently. [105] James Kenneth Stephen, Albert Victor's former tutor, refused all food from the day of Albert Victor's death and died 20 days later; he had suffered a head injury in 1886 which left him suffering from psychosis. © Royal Collection Trust “Although at times bewildered by her husband’s selfish behaviour and abandoned to loneliness Luise seemed contented enough until 1820, and devoted herself to her two young sons Ernst and Albert. She wrote, "I am sure the boy is as straight as a line ... Arthur does not the least know how or where the boy spends his time ... he believes the boy to be perfectly innocent. Of course, there’s no record of anyone alive at the time suggesting that the Royal Family or anyone associated with them was behind the Ripper killings. Ultimately, there’s simply no link between Albert Victor or anyone in the royal family to the murders. He was the first child of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and his wife Alexandra of Denmark. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Bertie and Alix, as they were known, went on to have six children, five surviving to adulthood. Albert Victor writing to his brother, George, quoted in Pope-Hennessy, p. 198. Older versions of Albert Victor in Edward the Seventh are played by Jerome Watts and Charles Dance. The allegations were reported to Buckingham Palace and the head of the police Special Branch investigated. The radical politician, Henry Broadhurst, who had met both Albert Victor and his brother George, noted that they had "a total absence of affectation or haughtiness". In Gary Lovisi's parallel universe Sherlock Holmes pastiche, "The Adventure of the Missing Detective" in Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years, Albert Victor is portrayed as a tyrannical king, who rules after the deaths (in suspicious circumstances) of both his grandmother and father. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Dowager Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife, 10th (Prince of Wales' Own) Royal Hussars, 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, "Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Royal Christenings", "Clarence and Avondale, H.R.H. [17] Some biographers have said that Stephen was a misogynist, although this has recently been questioned,[18] and he may have felt emotionally attached to Albert Victor, but whether or not his feelings were overtly homosexual is open to question. Portrait of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, by Winterhalter, 1846 Edward was born at 10:48 in the morning on 9 November 1841 in Buckingham Palace. It was adapted into a 2001 film of the same name by the Hughes brothers. Into that world he refused to be initiated. [79] On 3 December 1891 Albert Victor, to Mary's "great surprise", proposed to her at Luton Hoo, the country residence of the Danish ambassador to Britain. Though such claims have been repeated frequently, scholars have dismissed them as fantasies, and refer to indisputable proof of the Prince's innocence. Most of the extensive travelling was done by train,[62] although elephants were ridden as part of ceremonies. The second theory doesn’t connect Albert directly to the slayings. And the theory that the Royal Family was organizing the murders to cover up Albert’s marriage is equally unlikely. He was the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Mary was the daughter of Queen Victoria's first cousin Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck. Rumors of homosexuality (which was then illegal) followed Albert for much of his adult life. She was the illegitimate child of King Albert II of Belgium and her mother Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps during their 18-year romance. Aronson, p. 197 and Cook, pp. Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesIllustration shows the police discovering the body of one of Jack the Ripper’s victims, likely Catherine Eddowes, in London, England, late September 1888. St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (2008). Rev. [65], In the 1920s, however, the son, Clarence, repeated the story and published a book in the United States, My Uncle George V, in which he claimed he was born in London in September 1890, about nine months after Albert Victor's meeting with Mrs. Haddon. See e.g. [84] Although she was the nominal mistress of Lord Charles Montagu, who gave evidence at the inquest, it was alleged that he was merely a cover for the Prince, who had requested she give up her theatrical career on his behalf, and that the authorities sought to suppress the case by making the inquest private and refusing access to the depositions. The Prince of Mirrors by Alan Robert Clark is a historical novel which closely follows the factual trajectory of Albert Victor's documented life, and imaginatively interweaves how that life might have been emotionally. [80] The wedding was set for 27 February 1892. Prince Albert Victor and his grandmother, Queen Victoria. A pair of alternative history novels King and Joker (1976) and Skeleton in Waiting (1990), written by Peter Dickinson, are the adventures of a fictitious royal family descended from an Albert Victor who survived and reigned as King Victor I. Shops put up their shutters. [117] For example, on 30 September 1888, when Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were murdered in London, Albert Victor was over 500 miles (over 800 km) away at Balmoral, the royal retreat in Scotland, in the presence of Queen Victoria, other family members, visiting German royalty and a large number of staff. [1] Some authors have argued that he was the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, but contemporary documents show that Albert Victor could not have been in London at the time of the murders, and the claim is widely dismissed. The first, a daughter named Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, was born to an American woman in 1992. [122], The conspiracy theories surrounding Albert Victor have led to his portrayal in film as somehow responsible for or involved in the Jack the Ripper murders. "[45], While English newspapers suppressed mention of the Prince's name in association with the case, Welsh-language,[46] colonial, and American newspapers were less inhibited. "[49] Lady Waterford also believed Somerset's protestations of his own innocence. ... and Prince Albert of Belgium with their children in 1969. That’s right, the royal couple had a brood of heirs – and all of them lived to adulthood. [90][91] Owing to discrepancies in the dates and spelling of the letters, one historian has suggested they could be forgeries. [55], The foreign press suggested that Albert Victor was sent on a seven-month tour of British India from October 1889 to avoid the gossip which swept London society in the wake of the scandal. The rumour that Prince Albert was the love child of Leopold and Louise remains unproven and he is still officially the son of Ernest I along with his older brother Ernest. [100] Princess Mary wrote to Queen Victoria of the Princess of Wales, "the despairing look on her face was the most heart-rending thing I have ever seen. Rumours in his time linked him with the Cleveland Street scandal, which involved a homosexual brothel; however, there is no conclusive evidence that he ever went there, or was indeed homosexual. 205–208; Harrison, pp. Aronson, pp. He developed pneumonia and died at Sandringham House in Norfolk on 14 January 1892, less than a week after his 28th birthday. Cook, pp. Dismissed as a crank, he died a broken man. Now quite insane, he decided to take revenge on the prostitutes of London and for a few years, he carried out the string of vicious killings we associate with the Ripper murders. Born 3 April 1900 in Liptovský Mikuláš , Hungary , Austria-Hungary , she was placed almost immediately after her birth with Anna Rosenthal and her husband Rubin Schwalb, of Jewish origin. [115][116] It was later alleged, among others by Stephen Knight in Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, that Albert Victor fathered a child with a woman in the Whitechapel district of London, and either he or several high-ranking men committed the murders in an effort to cover up his indiscretion. King Albert II and Queen Paola with their three children Princess Astrid, Prince Philippe and Prince Laurent in 1967 Getty Images As reported in the Telegraph , Delphine’s lawyer Marc Uyttendaele said: ‘The court affirms that King Albert II is her father, her other requests that she be treated on the same footing as her brothers and sister were also granted. Papers in The National Archives show that neither courtiers nor Margery had any proof to support the allegation. Samuel West played "Prince Eddy" in The Ripper (1997), having previously played Albert Victor as a child in the 1975 TV miniseries Edward the Seventh. [34] The prostitutes had not named Albert Victor, and it is suggested that Somerset's solicitor, Arthur Newton, fabricated and spread the rumours to take the heat off his client. [77] When Albert Victor died, his sisters Maud and Louise sympathized with Hélène and treated her, not his fiancee Princess Mary of Teck, as his true love. Albert, 47, the only son of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, formally recognised last week that 22-month-old Alexandre Coste, the child of Nicole Coste, a former air hostess from Togo, was his son. Queen Victoria’s grandson and heir to the British throne, the handsome Prince Albert Victor – or ‘Eddy’ – had an illustrious future ahead of him. As Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, the future William IV fathered 10 illegitimate children by Irish actress Dorothea Jordan, owner, supposedly, of the most beautiful legs ever seen on stage, and dabbled in drunken disorder. The two princes were given a strict programme of study, which included games and military drills as well as academic subjects. Haddon was found guilty and the judge, believing Haddon to be suffering from delusions, did not imprison him but bound him over for three years on the condition that he made no claim that he was Albert Victor's son. 199–200 and Hyde. They acquired tattoos in Japan. Albert Victor was born two months prematurely on 8 January 1864 at Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire. Under police interrogation, the male prostitutes and pimps revealed the names of their clients, who included Lord Arthur Somerset, an Extra Equerry to the Prince of Wales. I can’t be the only one who has lost count of births on the show? [64], During the trip, Albert Victor met Mrs. Margery Haddon, the wife of a civil engineer, Henry Haddon. His absence at sea, and on travels and duty with his regiment, kept him out of the general eye ... at times, there was a sallowness of hue, which much increased the grave aspect ... not only in the metropolis, but throughout the country, somehow, it was always said, 'He will never come to the throne. 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And there’s no hard evidence to suggest that he was even homosexual. Albert Victor writing to Lady Sybil Erskine 28 June 1891, quoted in Pope-Hennessy, p. 200. "[114], Rumours that Prince Albert Victor may have committed, or been responsible for, the Jack the Ripper murders were first mentioned in print in 1962. [10], Separating the brothers for the remainder of their education was considered, but Dalton advised the Prince of Wales against splitting them up as "Prince Albert Victor requires the stimulus of Prince George's company to induce him to work at all. [118] Other fanciful conspiracy theories are that he died of syphilis or poison, that he was pushed off a cliff on the instructions of Lord Randolph Churchill, or that his death was faked to remove him from the line of succession. But there is an obvious problem with the idea that Prince Albert Victor was Jack the Ripper. The 62-year-old prince, who already supports two illegitimate children, is alleged to have had a relationship with a Brazilian woman which resulted in a daughter in 2005. But for years, his first-born daughter Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, 25, and his first-born son Alexandre Coste, 14, have lived the life of commoners. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) and grandson of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria. 193–199. [16] At Bachelor's Cottage, Sandringham, Albert Victor was expected to cram before arriving at university in the company of Dalton, French instructor Monsieur Hua, and a newly chosen tutor/companion James Kenneth Stephen. [111] However, Queen Victoria referred to Albert Victor's "dissipated life" in private letters to her eldest daughter,[112] which were later published and, in the mid-20th century, the official biographers of Queen Mary and King George V, James Pope-Hennessy and Harold Nicolson respectively, promoted hostile assessments of Albert Victor's life, portraying him as lazy, ill-educated and physically feeble. The Prince of Wales wrote to Queen Victoria, "Gladly would I have given my life for his". Instead, they were an attempt to cover up a secret that would shake the foundations of the Monarchy. [41] Aronson's judgement was based on Albert Victor's "adoration of his elegant and possessive mother; his 'want of manliness'; his 'shrinking from horseplay'; [and] his 'sweet, gentle, quiet and charming' nature",[41] as well as the Cleveland Street rumours and his opinion that there is "a certain amount of homosexuality in all men". Albert Victor was known to his family, and many later biographers, as "Eddy". [82] A week after the first letter, he asked Erskine, "I wonder if you really love me a little? The root of these theories actually seems to come from the 1960s at the earliest. [58] Travelling via Athens, Port Said, Cairo and Aden, Albert Victor arrived in Bombay on 9 November 1889. [39] Sir Charles Russell was retained to watch the proceedings in the case on behalf of Albert Victor. [87], Rumours also surfaced in 1900, after Albert Victor's death, of his association with another former Gaiety girl, Maude Richardson (birth name: Louisa Lancey),[88] and that the royal family had attempted to pay her off. But in the 1960s another, darker rumor about Prince Albert Victor emerged: he was actually Jack the Ripper, posited by Stephen Knight in the book Jack The Ripper: The Final Solution.
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