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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.”
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale was the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales. From the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne, but did not become king or prince of Wales because he died before both his grandmother Queen Victoria and his father.
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.
Clarence, Albert Victor Christian Edward, duke of (1864–92). Clarence was the first son of Edward, prince of Wales, and grandson of Queen Victoria. From the beginning, his health caused anxiety and he seems to have been congenitally handicapped: at the age of 5 he was described as ‘languid and listless’.
Albert Victor Duke of Clarence and Avondale and his brother George, Duke of York. A brother, George Frederick Ernest Albert, followed on 3rd June, 1865, after which three daughters the Princesses Louise (1867 - 1931), Victoria (1868 - 1935) and Maud (1869 - 1938) of Wales, were born in succession.
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’.
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.
Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, 1891 Dec 1891. 12.6 x 9.7 cm (image) | RCIN 2905057. Description. Photograph showing a three-quarters length portrait of Prince Albert Victor (l1864-92) and his fiancee Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (1867-1953), later Queen Mary, standing arm-in-arm facing front.
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.
