The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper by Paul Begg & John Bennett

Author:Paul Begg & John Bennett [Begg, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781405913362
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2013-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

Though not named in print on this occasion, the ‘queen’s physician’ in 1888 was Sir William Gull.

Apparently, on the evening of the day he lunched with Stowell Wilson met diplomat and politician Sir Harold Nicolson and told him about the theory. The following year (1962), Philippe Jullian published his book Edouard VII, in which he thanked Nicolson ‘for allowing me to delve into his works and for telling me a number of hitherto unpublished anecdotes’. What is interesting in this case is that Jullian’s book said that

Before he died, poor Clarence was a great anxiety to his family. He was quite characterless and would soon have fallen a prey to some intriguer or group of roues, of which his regiment was full. They indulged in every form of debauchery, and on one occasion the police discovered the Duke in a maison de rencontre of a particularly equivocal nature during a raid. Fifty years before, the same thing had happened to Lord Castlereagh, and he had committed suicide. The young man’s evil reputation soon spread. The rumour gained ground that he was Jack the Ripper (others attributed the crimes committed in Whitechapel to the Duke of Bedford).23

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