Prince albert gay
Today’s subject is the dude who would be King, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, firstborn son of Edward VII, Grandson of Queen Victoria, known to his friends and family simply as “Eddy." Wrapped up in a sizzling sex scandal, he became a prime example of a British royal story: an intellectually dull man, charmless, with neither cultural interests nor creative talents, but who, due to sheer accident of birth, create himself permitted to indulge all his whims.
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SOURCES:
Ackroyd, Peter. Queer City: Queer London from the Romans to the Present Day. London: Vintage, 2018. Prepare, Andrew. Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2009. Cook, Matt. London and the Tradition of Homosexuality, 1885-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Hyde, H. Montgomery. The Cleveland Street Scandal. Brand-new York: Coward McCann, 1976.
Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Tune Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.
The Prince Albert
The Gay Liberation Front ran discos there up until 1975 [1].
The Alternative Gay Allianceand Icebreakerssubsequently held discos at the pub, in the basement. In the summer of 1979 the Icebreakers disco moved to the Hemingford Arms, near Caledonian Road, London.References
- ↑ Letter in Hall Carpenter Archives, London School of Economics (HCA/McLellan/10) in which GLF Collective state they own 'given up running discos at the Prince Albert because of idolgy (sic)'. Martin Corbett GLF Collective 19 Jan 1975
The queeny prince
Kate Hubbard reviews Prince Albert: The Gentleman Who Saved the Monarchy by A N Wilson
A few months before the publication of Prince Albert, I went to notice A N Wilson discuss about his forthcoming publication at a small literary festival.
A couple of remarks tossed into the sea of (mostly) silvery heads caused something of a stir: first, Wilson likened the marriage of Victoria and Albert to a same-sex union between two women; and secondly, he mentioned Albert’s call in the same breath as that of the sinister Rob Titchener of Archers fame. This was intriguing. Was he really suggesting that the royal marriage could be seen as a case of coercive control with a transgender twist?
There was of course an element of facetiousness (not a quality to be initiate in Albert) in Wilson’s comments, but a grave point, too. In his earlier biography of Victoria, he described the marriage as the stormy partnership of two very sturdy wills. Here he doesn’t so much deviate from that line as embellish it. For Albert, as Wilson rightly says, care ‘went hand in hand with control’. That the royal couple referred to each other as ‘my Master’ and ‘my Child’ says much.
Victoria’s nine
Queer Places:
19 Cleveland St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 4AJ, UK
Windsor Castle, 3 The Cloisters, Windsor SL4 1NJ
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892), was the eldest youngster of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) and grandson of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria. From the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne, but never became king: he died before his father and grandmother.
Albert Victor was acknowledged to his family, and many later biographers, as "Eddy". When young, he travelled the world extensively as a naval cadet, and as an mature person he joined the British Army, but did not undertake any active military duties. After two unsuccessful courtships, he was engaged to be married to Princess Mary of Teck in late 1891. A few weeks later, he died during an influenza pandemic. Mary later married his younger brother, who became King George V in 1910.
Albert Victor's intellect, sexuality and mental health have been the subject of speculation. Rumours in his time
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