Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, the Duke of Clarence,
was known as Eddy. He was the grandson of Queen Victoria and was born
in 1864. He fell short of any royal ambitions for him and was not
distinguished by any important positive traits. However, lazy, aimless
and spoiled that he might have, he was not an evil or violent man. He
died from influenza in the epidemic of 1892.The
first notion that he was a suspect in the Ripper murders appeared in
1962 in Phillippe Jullien's book,
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