Every family has a black sheep. It might be the slightly racist uncle, the cross-dressing granddad, or that distant cousin with a glass eye who grows award-winning turnips, yet just imagine if you were related to the most notorious serial killer in history?
According to History, there's a theory Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor, was Jack the Ripper. Eddy, as he was affectionately known, was rumored to have contracted syphilis from a prostitute in the West Indies. Living in an age before penicillin was a bad time to be sexually irresponsible. STDs were rife and there was no easy cure. The story goes: as syphilis began to rot Eddy's brain, the playboy prince began taking his revenge by killing ladies of the night in London's East End. All That's Interesting reports there's another theory suggesting Eddy secretly impregnated and married a common Catholic girl from Whitechapel who was friends with the Ripper's victims. Apparently, in order to stop the scandal and silence everyone who knew about it, an "agent of the Royal Family" started slaying all the common tarts in the know. The Unredacted states Victoria's physician William Gull was rumored to carry out the dark deeds. This theory is also the basis for Alan Moore's graphic novel From Hell.
Of course, none of this can be proven, but Queen or no Queen, it's not a very nice skeleton to have in the family closet.
Is it true or a speculation?