OT Jack the Ripper (was: The British/English Constitution)

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OT Jack the Ripper (was: The British/English Constitution)

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 13 okt 2004 23:40:40

Dear John,

Several years ago someone sent me a book called "The Ripper and the
Royals".
It maintains it was NOT Albert Victor but it was done by several people,
including Lord Randolph Churchill, to "protect the monarchy". You probably
read about the surgical method by which the murders were done, this dopey
Duke had no medical knowledge to do it himself. He may have caused it but
did not do it, nor asked for it to be done.
Leo


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Parsons" <carmi47@msn.com
To: <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: Jack the Ripper (was: The British/English Constitution)


It was her grandson Albert Victor, duke of Clarence and Avondale
(1864-1892)
who, had he lived, would have been King and Emperor after his father,
Edward
VII.

Allegations that the duke was Jack the Ripper surfaced in the 1970s
after
the papers of a London psychiatrist in the 1890s came to light. These
papers described the real "Jack," among the doctor's patients, as the
son
of
a noble English family, a man whose parents were renowned for their
social
gifts and who had done much to enhance British prestige around the
world.
While the account in no way pointed directly to the royal family, the
British media of the day drew the conclusion that the duke of Clarence
was
meant.

Within a short time, Buckingham Palace unearthed an ancient Court
Circular
showing that the duke was at Balmoral at the time of one of the
Whitechapel
murders.

For many, Albert Victor's participation in the Whitechapel murders was
later
made more unlikely when declassified police records showed that he was
among
those present when a homosexual brothel in London was raided. Allegedly
he
had gone there expecting the Victorian equivalent of an evening of strip
teases by pretty girls, and left quite disappointed.

No certain conclusions about his private life can be based on this one
incident, and it is abundantly clear from diaries and letters of the
time
that the duke carried on every bit as active a heterosexual love life as
did
his father. In fact royal secretaries were petrified at the mere
thought
that Queen Victoria might find out what her grandson was up to, and
elaborate strategies were developed to conceal the truth from her.
Albert
Victor lurched from one unsatisfactory love affair to another, at one
point
falling desperately in love with a daughter of the Count of Paris,
precipitating a minor crisis as public opinion would have opposed his
marriage to a Roman Catholic, and the republican French government would
not
have wished the stature of the exiled Orleans family to be enhanced by
such
a marriage.

The attractive but mentally inert Albert Victor was engaged in 1891 to
his
cousin Princess "May" of Teck, but the next January caught influenza
while
hunting at Sandringham and died of pneumonia. (Princess May in 1893
married
his younger brother George, duke of York, who became George V in 1910.)
Rumor continues to insist that Albert Victor died of something of a more
social nature than pneumonia, but no proof of this has yet been found.

John P.


From: GRHaleJr@aol.com
To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: The British/English Constitution
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:19:00 EDT


In a message dated 10/13/2004 1:25:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
abuse@hotmail.com writes:

Even so, the idea of old Vicky slitting up a prostitute for kicks is
one
that somehow doesn't work...






But, wasn't it supposed to be one of her idiot sons who was the
butcher?
I
can't pin down a source for that right now. Perhaps later.

Gordon Hale
Grand Prairie, Texas







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