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Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra).
Although Prince Albert’s full official title was Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, those closest to him knew him by a different name entirely. To distinguish the young royal from all the other Alberts multiplying in his family, everyone just affectionately called him “Eddy.”
Duke of Clarence and Avondale was a title awarded to Prince Albert Victor, a grandson of Queen Victoria, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [1] 'Clarence' is believed [by whom?] to refer to Clare in Suffolk; 'Avondale' refers to the valley of the Avon Water in Scotland.
Tragically, a week after his twenty-eighty birthday Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence & Avondale succumbed to a severe bout of influenza at Sandringham in January 1892. Commenting on his son’s death in January 1892, the Prince of Wales said he would have ‘gladly given his own life’.
The first born son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra of Denmark, Prince Albert Victor, but for an accident of fate, would one day have suceeded his father on the throne of Great Britain
Prince, Duke of Clarence and Avondale; Albert Victor Christian Edward; Lived 28 years, 6 days; Albert Victor was known to his family, and many later biographers, as Eddy. 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.
Anybody with a cursory knowledge of British royal family history knew of a prince who fit the bill: Queen Victoria ’s grandson, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Not only had...
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864–1892), known to his family as "Eddy" was the eldest son of Albert, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and 'Heir Presumptive' – second-in-line to the British throne.
Description. A photograph of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale and Princess Mary of Teck in 1891. After the engagement was announced, Princess Mary, her parents and brothers, went to Windsor Castle on the evening of 10 December 1891, and they all stayed for two days.
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Albert Victor Christian Edward; 8 January 1864 – 14 January 1892) was the eldest child 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 did not become ...
