Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld

by Theo Aronson

  11. Benson, Edward VII, p. 21.

  12. Anstruther, Browning, p. 40.

  13. Ibid., p. 192.

  14. Weeks, Coming Out, p. 25.

  15. Battiscombe, Alexandra, p. 140.

  16. Ibid., p. 141.

  17. Nicolson, George V, p. 41.

  18. Battiscombe, Alexandra, p. 153.

  19. Magnus, Edward VII, p. 158.

  20. Rose, George V, p. 8.

  21. The Lancet, 27 Aug. 1993.

  22. Nicolson, George V, pp. 45–6.

  23. Langtry, Days I Knew, p. 81.

  24. Cape Argus, 16 Feb. 1881.

  25. Dalton, Voyage, pp. 551–2.

  26. Nicolson, George V, p. 55.

  27. Magnus, Edward VII, p. 169.

  28. Nicolson, George V, p. 50.

  29. Ibid., p. 51.

  30. Magnus, Edward VII, p. 170.

  31. Mayne, Intersexes, p. 186.

  32. Nicolson, George V, p. 58.

  33. Ibid., p. 50.

  34. Ibid., p. 61.

  CHAPTER FIVE: THE STUDENT PRINCE

  1. Gore, George V, p. 48.

  2. Battiscombe, Alexandra, p. 163.

  3. Ibid., p. 162.

  4. Nicolson, George V, p. 65.

  5. Battiscombe, Alexandra, p. 139.

  6. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 52.

  7. Asquith, Memories, p. 238.

  8. Cust, Edward VII, p. 33.

  9. Marie of Romania, Story, Vol. I, p. 43.

  10. Bullock, ‘Ich Dien’, p. 44.

  11. Battiscombe, Alexandra, pp. 163–4.

  12. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, p. 135.

  13. Ibid., p. 137.

  14. Ibid., p. 21.

  15. Ibid., p. 138.

  16. Magnus, Edward VII, p. 178.

  17. Granta, Feb. 1891.

  18. Harrison, Clarence, p. 164.

  19. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, p. 145.

  20. Ibid., p. 144.

  21. Ibid., p. 147.

  22. Ibid., p. 145.

  23. Anon. (‘X’), Myself, p. 36.

  24. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, pp. 152–4.

  25. Ibid., p. 157.

  26. Anon. (‘X’), Myself, p. 37.

  27. Weeks, Coming Out, p. 51.

  28. Asquith, Life and Letters, 26 Feb. 1897.

  29. Howells, Legacy, pp. 169, 172.

  30. Newsome, Excursions, p. 24.

  31. Newsome, Edge of Paradise, p. 230.

  32. Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, p. 52.

  33. Croft-Cooke, Feasting, p. 115.

  34. Anstruther, Browning, pp. 117–18.

  35. Croft-Cooke, Feasting, p. 116.

  36. Anon. (‘X’), Myself, p. 37.

  37. Anstruther, Browning, p. 118.

  38. Anon. (‘X’), Myself, p. 377.

  39. MacCarthy, Portraits, Browning, p. 172.

  40. Anon. (‘X’), Myself, p. 37.

  41. Punch, 23 Nov. 1883.

  42. Victoria, Letters, 2nd Series, Vol. III, p. 592.

  43. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, p. 163.

  44. St Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 104.

  45. Rose, George V, p. 21.

  46. Magnus, Edward VII, p. 189.

  47. Battiscombe, Alexandra, p. 168.

  48. Illustrated London News, 23 Jan. 1892.

  49. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, pp. 184–5.

  CHAPTER SIX: THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER

  1. Pease, Elections, p. 84.

  2. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, p. 188.

  3. St Aubyn, Royal George, p. 299.

  4. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, pp. 104–5.

  5. St Aubyn, Royal George, p. 299.

  6. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 192.

  7. St Aubyn, Royal George, p. 239.

  8. St Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 104.

  9. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, pp. 19, 20.

  10. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 193.

  11. Pimlott, Hugh Dalton, p. 4.

  12. Ibid., p. 66.

  13. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, p. 178.

  14. Ibid., p. 184.

  15. Bullock, Prince Edward, p. 53.

  16. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 193.

  17. St Aubyn, Royal George, p. 299.

  18. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 193.

  19. Bullock, Prince Edward, p. 53.

  20. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 191.

  21. Fairclough, Ripper, p. 17.

  22. Ibid., pp. 1–14.

  23. Ibid., pp. 101–2.

  24. Ibid., p. 3.

  25. Ibid., p. 1.

  26. Ibid., p. 241.

  27. Ibid., p. 119.

  CHAPTER SEVEN: ROYAL JACK

  1. Rumbelow, Jack the Ripper, p. 83.

  2. Ibid., pp. 108–9.

  3. Ibid., p. 113.

  4. Ibid., p. 293.

  5. Stowell, Criminologist, Nov. 1970.

  6. Rumbelow, Jack the Ripper, p. 140.

  7. Spiering, Prince Jack, Foreword.

  8. Harris, Jack the Ripper, p. 126.

  9. Rumbelow, Jack the Ripper, pp. 218–19.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Spiering, Prince Jack, passim.

  12. Rumbelow, Jack the Ripper, p. 219.

  13. Ibid.

  CHAPTER EIGHT: RIPPING FOR THE PRINCE

  1. Bell, Virginia Woolf, p. 36.

  2. Harrison, Clarence, p. 181.

  3. Ibid., p. 176.

  4. Fairclough, Ripper, p. 14.

  5. Ibid., p. 8.

  6. Ibid., p. 56.

  7. Ibid., p. 92.

  8. Ibid., p. 88.

  9. Ibid., p. 74.

  10. Ibid., p. 154.

  11. Ibid., p. 236.

  12. Ibid., p. 160.

  13. Ibid., p. 221.

  14. Sitwell, Essences, p. 190.

  15. Howells, Legacy, p. 127.

  16. Ibid., pp. 172–3.

  17. Ibid., p. 197.

  18. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, p. 198.

  19. Rumbelow, Jack the Ripper, p. 19.

  20. Howells, Legacy, p. 143.

  21. Ibid., p. 198.

  CHAPTER NINE: KINGS AND QUEENS

  1. Magnus, Edward VII, p. 219; Battiscombe, Alexandra, p. 180.

  2. Lees-Milne, Nicolson, Vol. II, p. 230.

  3. Harrison, Clarence, p. 217.

  4. Nicolson, George V, p. 39; Vincent, Duke of Clarence, p. 178.

  5. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, p. 267.

  6. The Times, 15 Jan. 1892.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Crowley, World’s Tragedy, p. xxvii.

  9. Battiscombe, Alexandra, p. 185.

  10. Bailey, Homosexuality, p. 100.

  11. Freeman, William Rufus, p. 159.

  12. Norton, Mother Clap’s, p. 21.

  13. Ibid., p. 22.

  14. Burnet, History, p. 78.

  15. Zee, William and Mary, p. 423.

  16. Ibid.

  17. St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, p. 498.

  18. Weeks, Coming Out, p. 38.

  19. Peile, Candied Peel, p. 82.

  20. Newsome, Edge of Paradise, p. 327.

  21. The Times, 15 Jan. 1892.

  22. Sheppard, Cambridge, pp. 160–1.

  23. St Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 105.

  CHAPTER TEN: ‘MY LORD GOMORRAH’

  1. Hyde, Cleveland Street, p. 43.

  2. Pall Mall Gazette, 30 Mar. 1889.

  3. DPP 1/95/1.

  4. DPP 1/95/4.

  5. DPP 1/95/1.

  6. New York Herald, 22 Dec. 1889.

  7. DPP 1/95/4.

  8. CLAS, 18 Sept. 1889.

  9. DPP 1/95/1.

  10. Ibid.

  11. CLAS, 20 Sept. 1889.

  12. DPP 1/95/5.

  13. North London Press, 14 Dec. 1889.

  14. Hyde, Cleveland Street, p. 90.

  15. DPP 1/95/1.

  16. DPP 1/95/2.

  17. Ibid.

  18. St Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 105.

  19. CLAS, 24 Oct. 1889.

  20. DPP 1/95/1.

  21. Hyde, Cleveland Street, pp
. 96–7.

  22. HO 144/477/X24427.

  23. CLAS, 27 Feb. 1890.

  CHAPTER ELEVEN: ‘THE WHOLE TERRIBLE AFFAIR’

  1. New York Times, 10 Nov. 1889.

  2. Vincent, Duke of Clarence, p. 222.

  3. Ibid., pp. 233–7.

  4. Truth, 25 Dec. 1890.

  5. North London Press, 16 Nov. 1889.

  6. O’Connor, Memoirs, p. 83.

  7. Harris, Life and Loves, p. 369.

  8. North London Press, 23 Nov. 1889.

  9. DPP 1/95/4.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Truth, 30 Jan. 1890.

  CHAPTER TWELVE: ‘I NEVER MENTIONED THE BOY’S NAME’

  1. New York Times, 17 Nov. 1889.

  2. CLAS, 9 Nov. 1889.

  3. New York Herald, 22 Dec. 1889.

  4. CLAS, 28 Nov. 1889.

  5. Ibid., 20 Mar. 1890.

  6. Ibid., 6 Dec. 1889.

  7. Ibid., 10 Dec. 1889.

  8. Ibid., 21 Oct. 1889.

  9. Ibid., 27 Dec. 1889.

  10. Ibid., 31 Dec. 1889.

  11. Ibid., 10 Dec. 1889.

  12. Ibid., 27 Dec. 1889.

  13. Ibid., 23 Dec. 1889.

  14. Ibid., 13 Dec. 1889.

  15. Ibid., 29 Dec. 1889.

  16. Ibid., 10 Dec. 1889.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Truth, 2 Jan. 1890.

  19. CLAS, 22 Dec. 1889.

  20. Truth, 2 Jan. 1890.

  21. CLAS, 12 May 1890.

  22. DPP 1/95/6.

  23. Lees-Milne, Harold Nicolson, p. 231.

  24. Pimlott, Hugh Dalton, p. 77.

  25. Hatfield Archivist to the author.

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ‘THE GREATEST POSITION THERE IS’

  1. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 190.

  2. Ibid., p. 194.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Truth, 25 May 1890.

  5. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 189.

  6. Ibid., p. 197.

  7. Elsberry, Marie of Romania, p. 62.

  8. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 196.

  9. Hough, Louis and Victoria, p. 149.

  10. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 197.

  11. St Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 106.

  12. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 197.

  13. Ibid., p. 199.

  14. The Times, 16 Jan. 1892.

  15. Waddington, Letters, p. 274.

  16. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, pp. 196–7.

  17. Ibid., p. 198.

  18. Young, Balfour, pp. 122–3.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Magnus, Edward VII, p. 221.

  21. St Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 109.

  22. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 199.

  23. Ibid., p. 200.

  24. Roberts, Fripp, p. 58.

  25. Ibid., p. 27.

  26. Ibid., p. 36.

  27. Ibid., p. 32.

  28. Ibid., p. 33.

  29. Ibid., p. 29.

  30. Ibid., p. 33.

  31. Ibid., p. 39.

  32. Ibid., p. 40.

  33. Ibid., pp. 48–9.

  34. Ibid., p. 47.

  35. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 206.

  36. St Aubyn, Edward VII, p. 499.

  37. Victoria, Letters, 11 Oct. 1890.

  38. Bullock, Prince Edward, p. 14.

  39. Roberts, Fripp, p. 57.

  40. Ibid., p. 58.

  41. Ibid., p. 58.

  42. Ibid., p. 59.

  43. Ibid., p. 39.

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE DEATH AND THE LEGEND

  1. Reynolds Newspaper, 24 Jan. 1892.

  2. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 194.

  3. Ibid., p. 195.

  4. Ibid., p. 193.

  5. Ibid., p. 195.

  6. Magnus, Edward VII, p. 238.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ibid., p. 228.

  9. Ibid., p. 238.

  10. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, pp. 207–8.

  11. Ibid., p. 214.

  12. Magnus, Edward VII, p. 239.

  13. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 211.

  14. Ibid., p. 209.

  15. Ibid., p. 210.

  16. Benson, As We Were, p. 194.

  17. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 215.

  18. Ibid., p. 222.

  19. Longford, Darling Loosy, p. 239.

  20. Victoria, Empress Writes, p. 212.

  21. Waddington, Letters, p. 33.

  22. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 222.

  23. Battiscombe, Alexandra, pp. 189–90.

  24. Hyde, Cleveland Street, p. 244.

  25. Battiscombe, Alexandra, p. 191.

  26. Anon., Notebooks, p. 212.

  27. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 227.

  28. Illustrated London News, 23 Jan. 1892.

  29. Reynolds Newspaper, 24 Jan. 1892.

  30. Pope-Hennessy, Lonely Business, p. 226.