Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 156619993X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Interesting info" according to J Sutherland. I hadn't read much about Eddy before. I had heard about the Jack the Ripper issue. Just an interesting read.. Martin Blair said Very disappointing. For an accurate - and more updated - look at this most misunderstood royal, read Prince Eddy: the King Britain Never Had. Recently discovered letters by Prince Eddy to his cousin Prince Louis refute the often repeated notion that he was feeble-minded or mentally retarded. This tall, handome young man was sensitive, articulate and rather observant of the events and the people in his life. Many of us his contemporaries considered him personable and charismatic, particularly when compared to his rigid, intellectually disintereted younger brother George . Todd Bartholomew said The definitive book on this dissolute royal!. "Prince Eddy" is a lively recounting of London's Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889 and the involvement in it by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (a/k/a Prince Eddy). Part biography, part history lesson, part crime novel "Prince Eddy" captures the sexual mores of the Victorian Era quite well and along the way paints a very unflattering portrait of a mostly forgotten royal. As the eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) Prince Eddy was "The definitive book on this dissolute royal!" according to Todd Bartholomew. "Prince Eddy" is a lively recounting of London's Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889 and the involvement in it by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (a/k/a Prince Eddy). Part biography, part history lesson, part crime novel "Prince Eddy" captures the sexual mores of the Victorian Era quite well and along the way paints a very unflattering portrait of a mostly forgotten royal. As the eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) Prince Eddy was 2nd in line to assume the throne and a horrible p. nd in line to assume the throne and a horrible p
As fascinating as Aronson finds Prince Eddy, this book is equally so. Brad Hooper. Veteran biographer of royal lives, Aronson dismisses the notion as "absurd." However, he sets his balanced look at the reckless, self-indulgent, even dissipated life of Eddy within the context of the homosexual world of Victorian England, with which, avers Aronson, the prince was probably familiar. From Booklist Prince Albert Victor--known within the British royal family as "Eddy"--was Queen Victoria's grandson and second heir after her son. The legend sprang up, and has been debated and reasserted and challenged ever since, that Prince Eddy was the famous serial killer who was never apprehended and whose name lives on in infamy, Jack the Ripper. The author creates a decidedly unsensational picture of life for male homosexuals at the time; simultaneously, he draws a cradle-to-grave portrait of Prince Eddy as a lazy,
He explores Prince Eddy's upbringing, his university and military careers, his curious personality, his alleged "secret marriage", his links with the Jack the Ripper murders, his early death and, above all, the central mystery of his life - his sexual orientation. In November 1970 an article in an obscure British journal made the startling claim that the notorious mass-murderer, Jack the Ripper, had been none other than Queen Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor, Heir Presumptive to the British throne. Although this bizarre theory was subsequently dismissed, rumours about the long-forgotten figure of Prince Albert Victor - always known as Eddy - began to gather force. For it was this that linked the young Prince's name to the Cleveland Street Scandal.. Out of this welter of conjecture, claim and counter-claim, there emerged one accusation that cannot be dismissed. Working from original sources (includi
. Working from original sources (including the files of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Esher Papers), Theo Aronson has written the first full account of the strange life of Prince Eddy, setting it in perspective against a vivid backcloth of the astonishingly active homosexual underworld during the last decades of Queen Victoria's reign. He explores Prince Eddy's upbringing, his