Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale Septimus E. Scott West view of St Bartholomew-the-Great

West view of St Bartholomew-the-Great

'Sir Bedivere casts the sword Excalibur into the Lake'

The play was first performed in c1605

'After the Bath'

Inscribed 'Tab

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale Septimus E. Scott West view of St Bartholomew-the-GreatPrince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, c1890s. Portrait of the prince (1864 1892), who died of pneumonia before he was thirty. The eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), Prince Albert Victor's life has been wrapped in secrecy and scandal. He is thought to have visited a male brothel, to have fathered an illegitimate child by a married woman, and was for a time rumoured to have been Jack the Ripper.