The first biography of Prince Albert Victor to paint a truly accurate portrait of a key British royal figure who has become a dumping ground for a host of lurid tales from Victorian gay scandals to Jack the Ripper.

He was heir to the British throne but died in 1892 at the age of 28; his younger brother ultimately succeeded him as the conservative, and stodgy George V. Eddy was as popular and charismatic a figure in his own time as Princess Diana a century later.  As in her case, his sudden death in 1892 resulted in public demonstrations of grief on a scale rarely seen at the time, and it was even rumoured (as in the case of Diana) that he was murdered to save him besmirching the monarchy.

Now, for the first time, using modern forensic evidence combined with Eddy’s previously unseen records, personal correspondence and photographs, his innocence is proven.  Prince Eddy reveals the truth about a key royal figure, a man who would have made a fine king and changed the face of the British monarchy.