Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward or 'Eddy' was the grandson of Queen Victoria and one of the most famous Jack The Ripper suspects. The Prince had supposedly met a girl named Annie Crook who was a Catholic girl and of low social standing, he apparently secretly married her and had a child with her but when the royal family found this out the prince was ushered abroad and his wife was forced into and asylum and had an operation, which was performed by Sir William Gull, to wipe her memory. The child was left with Annie Cook's friend Mary Kelly. Mary Kelly's friends, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman and Elizabeth Stride, all knew about the relationship between Annie Crook and the Prince as well as about the child, as they couldn't keep this quiet Sir William Gull was again asked for help. A Dr. Thomas Stowell published an article in 1970 accusing the Prince of being Jack The Ripper, basing his theory upon some papers of Sir William Gull. Thomas Stowell claimed Sir William Gull was treating the Prince for syphilis, the disease supposedly caused the Prince to go insane and commit the Whitechaple murders, however, none of this could be proven as Thomas Stowell burned his papers and then died shortly after publishing his theories and Sir William Gull's papers have not been found. A key factor is that the royal records show that the Prince was not anywhere close to London for the most important murder dates.
http://www.casebook.org/suspects/eddy.html
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/ripper/suspects_18.html
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