Reputation of Prince Albert Victor ( Prince Eddy) and the Cleveland Street Affair 1889
Extract adapted from a longer (unpublished) piece -'Podge and Prejudice- The Fall of Lord Arthur Somerset ' "Reputation, reputation, reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial." Cassio in Othello Act 2 Scene 3 Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward or 'Prince Eddy', was born on 8th January 1864, the eldest son of (Albert) Edward Prince of Wales, or 'Bertie' and Princess Alexandra of Denmark : Whilst pregnant, Princess Alexandra took part in some frantic sledging across the ice at Windsor, which may have induced a premature birth of up to two months. Baby Eddy weighed about four pounds when born. COOK And Prince Eddy, though second in line to the throne, predeceased both his parents and his grandmother Queen Victoria, dying from influenza shortly after his twenty eighth birthday, on 14th January 1892. His younger brother became King George V in 1910, when their father Edward VII died. Ir's hard ...