PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR

BY GEORGIA PHILPOTT

Prince Albert, known as Eddy to his family, was born in 1864.

His father was a well-known man by the English public and highly respected to many higher and lower classes.

Eddy was a slow child and grew up to be a rather dull adult. He was self-indulgent and not punctual. He had been given no proper education and as a result he was interested in nothing.

There were unconfirmerd rumours that Eddy was mildly retarded, it was said that his intellagence was lower than expected of a future monarch. He was partly deaf due to hearing problems inherited in his mothers side of the family.

During Jack the ripper murders, there were no actual theroies presented linking Eddy to the crimes. It was not untill 1962 when the first theory regarding eddys involvment the murders became known. Phillipee Jullien made and published a book, blameing the Prince for the murders and saying that he was 'Jack The Ripper'. This and many other novels created a sensation of Prince Albert being the killer and many of the public started to turn on him.

Stowel apparently used the private papers of sir william gull as his primary source material and it was these papers which led him to devise his theroy.

There is not enough evidence to prove that Eddy was Jack the pripper, but i believe that he had a partner to help him.

According to Stowell, Eddy was suffering from syphilis, contracted during a shore party in the West Indies, and that this infection drove Eddy insane and compelled him to commit the murders.In this theory, the Royal Family knew that Eddy was the murderer (definitely after the second murder, and possibly even after the first) Eddy's doctor in this matter was supposedly Sir William Gull who informed Bertie that his son was dying of syphilitic infection.

Apparently no attempt was made to restrain Eddy until after the double event when he was carried away in restraints to a private mental hospital. Eddy then escaped to carry out the Kelly murder , soon after he was again locked away and died, not of flu in 1892 as claimed, but of "softening of the brain" in a private mental hospital in Sandringham. Stowell goes on to include Eddy's resemblance to Druitt and the eye-witness accounts of the Ripper as proof positive. While a neat and tidy theory, later Ripperologists have poked several effective holes through it.

To begin with, Stowell claims of using Gull's private papers cannot be substantiated due to Stowell's death within days of publishing his theory and the burning of his own papers (unread) by the family. With the lack of the papers, Stowell's claims of Eddy being homosexual (and nearly escaping prosecution in the Cleveland Street scandal) and of Eddy's contracting syphilis cannot be confirmed. Adding more confusion, Stowell used Gull's papers for his theory but Eddy supposedly died in 1892 and Gull in 1890 so Gull could not have been able to comment on the cause of Eddy's death. If the theory is true, Gull could be a source of confirming the infection but not necessarily of it being the cause of Eddy's death. Being the two most important parts of the theory, their elimination severely weakens the case.

In 1978, Spiering issued a challenge to Queen Elizabeth II to reveal the truth about Eddy. Either she should open the Royal archives or hold a press release detailing the Duke's activities as the Ripper.

Profile

• A royal member in the household
• Knowledge of the human organs
• well respected
• stable character in public

Relationships to murders

• Affiar with a prostitute
• royal coatch - many have been used during the murders

Evidence

• He has knowled of the human organs and medical knowledge
• Given medical knowledge to other people

Motive

• Had an affair with a prostitue
• Piad people to be quite(shut up) about his affiars/murders
• Paid someone to get rid of all prostitues

Time lines

murders
31st august 1888 - Mary Ann Niccholes

8th september 1888 - Annie Chapman

30th september 1888 - Elisabeth stride

30th september 1888 - Cathorine Eddows

9th november 1888 - Mary jane kelly

letters

17th sep - discovered by Peter Mc Clelland in sealed report envelope

27th sep - letter believed as a hoax, sent to news agency

30th sep - found a blood stianed apron piece and chalked message

1st oct - simular writing to another, makes direct references to both this letter and the murders of the previous night. (blood on letter)

6th oct - sent to George Lusk, recieved 1/2 a human kidney preserved in wine.

16th oct - recieved by local paper, intended for Isreal or Joseph (police)

29th oct - sent to the doctor, who examined the kidney.