Читать книгу The Diary of Jack the Ripper - The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick - Shirley Harrison - Страница 16

In the 1970s when the great surge of Ripper books really began, several writers produced a sensational new candidate. The public loves a royal scandal, which is probably why Prince Albert Victor, the Duke of Clarence, and grandson of Queen Victoria, has become the best-remembered suspect.

This story arose in November 1970, from an article in The Criminologist by Dr Thomas Stowell. He based his arguments on the alleged private papers of Sir William Gull, physician to the Queen, who treated the Prince for syphilis and said that he died of softening of the brain. (He, too, is on the suspect list along with Dr Barnardo and Lewis Carroll!). These papers were never expertly examined and are now missing. However, it is known from diaries and court circulars of the time that the Prince was in Yorkshire, Scotland and the royal retreat of Sandringham in Norfolk, at the time of the murders.