Stephen seems to have realised very quickly that the prince was far from stupid, and that his fine human qualities of kindness and empathy for others were strong foundations for a successful constitutional monarch. [13] They toured the British Empire, accompanied by Dalton, visiting the Americas, the Falkland Islands, South Africa, Australia, Fiji, the Far East, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Egypt, the Holy Land and Greece. July 2018 marked the centenary of the execution of the Romanovs by the Bolsheviks, one of the most haunting footnotes of the First World War. However, one theory suggests that the British Royal Family and Prince Albert Victor are responsible for London's Whitechapel murder spree. Most of the extensive travelling was done by train,[56] although elephants were ridden as part of ceremonies. [59], On his return from India, Albert Victor was created Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Earl of Athlone on 24 May 1890, Queen Victoria's 71st birthday. [92] The perfectionist Gilbert spent too much on the commission, went bankrupt, and left the country. "Victorian Scandal Revealed". Script error: The function "getCommonsLink" does not exist. Albert Victor was born January 8th, 1864 at Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, England. What exactly was so shocking about Eddy’s shenanigans that put the jaded Bertie into such a panic? Given the closeness in age of the two royal brothers, they were educated together. They acquired tattoos in Japan. [102], Albert Victor's posthumous reputation became so bad that in 1964 Philip Magnus called his death a "merciful act of providence", supporting the theory that his death removed an unsuitable heir to the throne and replaced him with the reliable and sober George V.[103] In 1972, Michael Harrison was the first modern author to re-assess Albert Victor and portray him in a more sympathetic light. The two princes were given a strict programme of study, which included games and military drills as well as academic subjects. The prince’s childhood tutor had despaired of being able to educate Eddy to the standard necessary for his position in life. [80] The wedding was set for 27 February 1892. But by that time Eddy would be dead. [55] He spent Christmas at Mandalay and the New Year at Calcutta. 1864–1892. Aronson, p. 110; Cook, p. 9; Cornwell, pp. Obviously we can never know what sort of monarch that Eddy might have been. [81], Just as plans for both his marriage to Mary and his appointment as Viceroy of Ireland were under discussion, Albert Victor fell ill with influenza in the pandemic of 1889–92. Aronson, pp. [66][67] Hélène offered to convert,[68] and Albert Victor offered to renounce his succession rights to marry her. Jack the Ripper was released in 1988 with Marc Culwick as Prince Albert Victor. All at once, Eddy was to have a new bride and a new purpose in life. [49], 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. Albert Victor photographed by Alexander Bassano, 1875 When Albert Victor was just short of seventeen months old, his brother, Prince George of Wales, was born on 3 June 1865. [16] Some biographers have said that Stephen was a misogynist, although this has recently been questioned,[17] and he may have felt emotionally attached to Albert Victor, but whether or not his feelings were overtly homosexual is open to question. [5] Though he learned to speak Danish, progress in other languages and subjects was slow. 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. [29] Of his private life, a childhood friend of Albert Victor later recalled that it was uneventful: "his brother officers had said that they would like to make a man of the world of him. In … After two unsuccessful courtships, he was engaged to be married to Princess Mary of Teck in late 1891. He was given the additional names of Christian, after his maternal grandfather King … He was given more public engagements, visited Ireland and Gibraltar, and opened the Hammersmith suspension bridge. Everything you ever wanted to know about... How George and Mary saved the royal family, Monarchs whose fate was determined by their brothers and sisters, The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren, The Ripper of our nightmares: 5 theories about Jack the Ripper’s identity. The story, based largely on the same sources as Murder by Decree, is also the basis for the play Force and Hypocrisy by Doug Lucie.[106]. 68–69. [19], At the start of the new term in October, Albert Victor, Dalton, and Lieutenant Henderson from Bacchante moved to Nevile's Court at Trinity College, which was generally reserved for accommodating dons rather than students. Even Queen Victoria herself seems somehow to have caught wind of her grandson’s peccadilloes. [84] 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. Bells tolled across Britain. From our enlightened viewpoint in the 21st century, it is difficult to care either way but, as the saying goes, the past is a foreign country where they do things differently. The official website for BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed, Try 3 issues of BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed for only £5, Queen Victoria’s grandson and heir to the British throne, the handsome Prince Albert Victor – or ‘Eddy’ – had an illustrious future ahead of him. Though such claims have been repeated frequently, scholars have dismissed them as fantasies, and refer to indisputable proof of the Prince's innocence. [44] In surviving private letters to his friend Lord Esher, Somerset denies knowing anything directly about Albert Victor, but confirms that he has heard the rumours, and hopes that they will help quash any prosecution. The allegations were reported to Buckingham Palace and the head of the police Special Branch investigated. 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Albert was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. [105], 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. They began their studies there two months behind the other cadets as Albert Victor contracted typhoid fever, for which he was treated by Sir William Gull. Did the biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil take place during the Wars of the Roses? [70] Many biographers have assumed that he was suffering from "a mild form of venereal disease",[41] perhaps gonorrhea,[71] and may have suffered from it on an earlier occasion,[72] but there is no known source confirming this. Edward VII, born Prince Albert Edward (November 9, 1841–May 6, ... Their first child, Albert Victor, was born ten months later, followed by five more siblings, including the future George V. Edward and Alexandra established themselves as socialites, and Edward openly carried on affairs throughout his life. Roman medicine: 6 ways people stayed healthy in ancient Rome, The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe. The reserved, bookish ‘May’, as she was known, seemed an unlikely spouse but, in the queen’s view, she was just the right girl to steady Eddy. [110], With his dukedom, Albert Victor was granted a coat of arms, being the royal arms of the United Kingdom, differenced by an inescutcheon of the arms of Saxony and a label of three points argent, the centre point bearing a cross gules.[116]. Her mother was Alexandra, Princess of Wales, the eldest daughter … In 1871, the Queen appointed John Neale Dalton as their tutor. What are referred to, delicately and vaguely, by earlier authors as Eddy’s “dissipations”  must have been something far more scandalous from the usual vices of the young men of his class; drink, gambling and heterosexual sex. The second, in 1890, was a love match 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.[64]. Rumours linked him with the Cleveland Street scandal, which involved a homosexual brothel, but there is no conclusive evidence verifying or disproving the rumours or his sexual orientation. He had one brother, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In a statement to police, Albert Victor's lawyers admitted that there had been "some relations" between him and Mrs. Haddon, but denied the claim of fatherhood. You're now subscribed to our newsletter. It is difficult to think of any other royal of recent times whose reputation has been so comprehensively and unfairly ‘trashed’ as that of the great-uncle of our present Queen. Cook, Andrew (2005). His fiancée Princess May became a ‘widow’ before she had become a wife (though, after a decent interval, she was ‘passed on’ to his younger brother George and became the austere, iconic Queen Mary). [73] In 1900, there were rumours of Albert Victor's association with a married actress, Maud Richardson, and that the royal family had attempted to pay her off. Mary and her mother quickly caught colds, while Albert Victor’s unmarried sisters, Victoria and Maud, were suffering from the flu. Though Eddy’s name was kept out of the British press, the scandal was serious enough for the New York Times to opine that the dissolute Prince Albert Victor would never be permitted to ascend the British throne. "[10] In 1877, the two boys were sent to the Royal Navy's training ship, HMS Britannia. The Prince and Princess of Wales were fighting, and George was still convalescing from Typhoid. After several failed marriages and Albert Victor's death, Margery came to England and claimed the Prince was the father of her son, Clarence Haddon. The trouble with Prince Eddy: Britain’s fascinating ‘lost’ king. "[47] In fact, none of the lawyers in the case was convicted of perjury or struck off during the scandal, but Somerset's solicitor, Arthur Newton, was convicted of obstruction of justice for helping his clients escape abroad, and was sentenced to six weeks in prison. 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". [96] He admitted, however, that "the allegations of Prince Eddy's homosexuality must be treated cautiously. Roskill, Mark (1968). It’s certainly hard to imagine that he would ever have turned his back on the plight of the Romanovs, as his brother King George V arguably did. “Bertie,” as he was known, grew up to be King Edward VII, but at the time this photo of his five children was taken in 1875, Victoria was still reigning. Diary of Mary of Teck, quoted in Pope-Hennessy, p. 210. She said, "I … Henry Broadhurst, 1901, quoted in Cook, p. 100. The trouble with Eddy came to a head with the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889, in which the existence of a male brothel in London frequented by the aristocracy exploded in the press. "[30], In July 1889, the Metropolitan Police uncovered a male brothel operated by Charles Hammond in London's Cleveland Street. Over twenty years later in 1910, Newton was struck off for twelve months for professional misconduct after falsifying letters from another of his clients, the notorious murderer Dr Crippen. Born in 1864, he was the elder son of Edward (Bertie), Prince of Wales and the future King Edward VII, and his wife Alexandra of Denmark; grandson to the ruling Queen Victoria, and therefore heir presumptive to the crown of the United Kingdom. c1889, Edward, Prince of Wales (and future Edward VII) and his wife Alexandra, Princess of Wales (third from left) and their five children. [26] Princess Augusta of Cambridge was also dismissive, calling him: "si peu de chose". She had become an alcoholic and seemed deranged. 0 0 1 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. He had a long swan-like neck, a full-lipped, sensual mouth and was what we’d now call a fashion victim. Instead of dying in the blood-soaked cellar at Ekaterinberg – the fate which met Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and their five children – she might easily have lived a long, contented life in the splendour of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. Whilst this can’t be denied, there is much to suggest that he was at least bisexual. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892), was the eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), and the grandson of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria. [12] Albert Victor was rated midshipman on his sixteenth birthday. You have successfully linked your account! Yet it was Bertie himself who, at his wits’ end over what to do about his wayward heir, at one point insisted Eddy should go on a long tour of the more remote colonies and certainly nowhere near the sybaritic capitals of Europe. [48] In 1913, Newton was struck off indefinitely and sentenced to three years imprisonment for obtaining money by false pretences. Unfortunately, the engagement fell through owing to the untimely demise of Prince Albert … His sudden death 150 years ago this week propelled his adoring wife, Queen Victoria, into life-long mourning. For the first time, Eddy was encouraged to see some value in himself and to get his first hazy impressions of his own identity. Five of the smaller figures were only completed with "a greater roughness and pittedness of texture" after his return to Britain in the 1920s. Though he learned to speak Danish, progress in other languages and subjects was slow. Queen Victoria was very supportive, considering Mary ideal—charming, sensible and pretty. [58], During the trip, Albert Victor met Mrs. Margery Haddon, the wife of a civil engineer, Henry Haddon. In 1871, the Queen appointed John Neale Dalton as their tutor. The two princes were given a strict programme of study, which included games and military drills as well as academic subjects. In 1871, the Queen appointed John Neale Dalton as their tutor. 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[36], The Prince of Wales intervened in the investigation; no clients were ever prosecuted and nothing against Albert Victor was proven. The Duke of Clarence's full style, as proclaimed at his funeral by Garter King of Arms was: "[the] Most High, Mighty, and Illustrious Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Earl of Athlone, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick". She became queen on George's accession. Followingthe morbid example of Queen Victoria, his clinging mother Alexandra kept the room in which he died as a permanent shrine; his hairbrushes and shaving things all ready, a fire burning in the grate. In the 1970s, it was even suggested that the prince was the notorious Whitechapel killer, Jack the Ripper. His formal name was Prince Albert Victor, later the Duke of Clarence, but he was always called ‘Eddy’ by his family. 1864–1892. She was affianced to Prince of Wales’ eldest son Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Avondale and Clarence, when she was 24 years old. At this time, the British empire was at its spectacular zenith and the British ruled in territories across the world; Prince Eddy’s future was beyond dazzling. This is all the more tragic because, in the light of modern knowledge, it is most likely that Prince Eddy simply had learning difficulties; one historian believes that he may also have suffered from a mild form of childhood epilepsy which would explain his apathy and problems with concentration. "Prince Edward: A Memory", p. 53, quoted by Aronson, pp. And the great mass of the people, shocked and saddened at a young life cut short, mourned their lost prince. 52, 56–57; Harrison, pp. 199–200 and Hyde. [2][3], When Albert Victor was just short of seventeen months old, his brother, Prince George of Wales, was born on 3 June 1865. [108] The Prince also appears as the murder victim in the first of the Lord Francis Powerscourt crime novels Goodnight Sweet Prince,[109] and as a murder suspect in the novel Death at Glamis Castle by Robin Paige. That distinction belongs to another young and handsome prince, a prince who is now largely forgotten. Poor Eddy; the relatively few people who know his name today probably only do so in relation to these ‘penny-dreadful’ tales. [14], The brothers were parted in 1883; George continued in the navy and Albert Victor attended Trinity College, Cambridge. [53] He was entertained sumptuously in Hyderabad by the Nizam,[54] and elsewhere by many other maharajahs. [74] In 2002, letters from Albert Victor to his solicitor referring to a payoff made to Richardson of £200 were sold at Bonhams auction house in London. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Princesses Maud and Victoria, Prince George, Princess Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, three physicians (Alan Reeve Manby, Francis Laking and William Broadbent) and three nurses were present. He developed pneumonia and died at Sandringham House in Norfolk on 14 January 1892, less than a week after his 28th birthday. Major Miles quoted in Aronson, p. 81, Cook, p. 123 and Harrison, p. 92. Few of the tourists who shuffle past it probably have any idea who he was. But for the Empress Alexandra at least, destiny could have been very different. He was christened Albert Victor Christian Edward in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace on 10 March 1864 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Longley, but was known informally as "Eddy". Blanche Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford to Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, 31 December 1889, quoted in Aronson, p. 168 and Cook, pp. "[85] His younger brother Prince George wrote, "how deeply I did love him; & I remember with pain nearly every hard word & little quarrel I ever had with him & I long to ask his forgiveness, but, alas, it is too late now! 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. Samuel West played "Prince Eddy" in The Ripper (1997) and Albert Victor as a child (with Jerome Watts and Charles Dance playing the character at older ages) in the TV miniseries Edward the Seventh, which starred West's father Timothy West as the title character. Following his grandmother Queen Victoria's wishes, he was named Albert Victor, after herself and her late husband Albert. From the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne, but never became king: he died before his father and his grandmother, the Queen. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; King George V; Prince Alexander John, Duke of Sussex and Kent; Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Prince Arthur of Connaught; Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany and of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Prince George William of Hanover; Prince Christian of Hanover When Albert Victor was just short of seventeen months old, his brother, Prince George of Wales, was born on 3 June 1865. The expected tributes were paid. [38] 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",[38] as well as the Cleveland Street rumours and his opinion that there is "a certain amount of homosexuality in all men". Mary later married his younger brother Prince George, who became King George V in 1910. The future tsar was not the first man who wanted Alicky of Hesse, as she was known as a girl, to become his wife. Absurd though it may have seemed, it was decided that Eddy should go to university, though it was wisely decreed he would not have to sit any examinations. [69] She later became the Duchess of Aosta. As a tall ‘toff’ had been seen in the vicinity of one of the murders, might it have been Eddy? [75][76] Owing to discrepancies in the dates and spelling of the letters, one historian has suggested they could be forgeries. He was third in the line to the throne, after his father, Prince Albert Edward, and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. [82] The Prince of Wales's chaplain, Canon Frederick Hervey, stood over Albert Victor reading prayers for the dying. Albert Victor's intellect, sexuality and mental health have been the subject of much speculation. Despite last-minute preparations, the 3 3/4 pound prince was born strong and healthy, with only the Prince of Wales, Lady Macclesfield, and the doctor in attendance. Cook, Andrew (1 November 2005) "The King Who Never Was". Given the closeness in age of the two royal brothers, they were educated together. [93] On the day of Albert Victor's death, the leading Liberal politician, William Ewart Gladstone, wrote in his personal private diary "a great loss to our party".
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