Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
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Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864–1892), known to his family as "Eddy" was the eldest son of Albert, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). He died at the age of 28 in a great influenza pandemic; had he lived to be 47 he would have succeeded his father as King. At the time of his death he was engaged to be married to Princess Mary of Teck, who subsequently married his brother George (later King George V).
There were various rumours of scandal surrounding Eddy (including a clearly false suggestion that he might have been Jack the Ripper) but the most widely spread rumour was that he had been involved in the Cleveland Street Scandal about a male brothel.
