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into Whitechapel from a more well-to-do area, and the author Stephen Knight promotes a Masonic
conspiracy theory involving the upper-classes and a doctor in his 1976 book Jack the Ripper: The Final
Solution. What he presents is quite compelling and the likelihood that the Freemasons were involved
remains high in my opinion. So in regards to this case, - though we know the murders were certainly true,
we also know many false stories and cover-ups have also been attributed to this true story, thus many a
hoax has been proclaimed and especially jumped on by those defenders of the upper classes who dismiss
Knight‘s version of events and proclaim his theories as a fantasy. [7]
The Royal Conspiracy theory first appeared in 1973 in the BBC programme, Jack the Ripper. In it,
fictional detectives Barlow and Watt finally solve the Ripper mystery through a series of conspiracies and
cover-ups. The story goes that the producers of the program, in doing research, were told to contact a man
named Sickert who knew about a secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor [always known as Eddy,
and the grandson of Queen Victoria and son of Prince Albert Edward], and a poor Catholic girl named
Alice Mary Crook. Sickert painted a strange story involving Eddy, Lord Salisbury, Sir Robert Anderson,
Sir William Gull, and even Queen Victoria herself! The man, Joseph Sickert, was the son of famous
painter, Walter Sickert, from whom he reportedly got the story. Sickert had lived in the East End during
the time of the murders and was supposedly a close friend of the Royal family. [8]
Princess Alex asked Sickert to take Eddy under his wing and watch out for him. Sickert eventually
introduced Eddy to a poor girl named Annie Crook who worked in one of the local shops in Cleveland
Street. Eddy soon got the girl pregnant and they were living quite happily with their daughter Alice until
the Queen discovered her grandson‘s indiscretion and demanded that the situation be terminated. [8] Not
only was Annie a commoner, but a Catholic at that, and there was belief that news of a Catholic heir to the
throne would spark a revolution, - and as I have already mentioned, the law still to this day in 2011
prevents a Catholic from ever becoming heir to the throne in England.
The led to the Queen handing the matter to her Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, to solve and he in turn,
went to Sir William Gull. After a daring raid on the Cleveland Street love nest, Eddy was taken away and
Annie was sent to one of Gull‘s hospitals where Gull performed experiments on her [as in early day MK-
Ultra programs, and what Cathy O‘Brien said she experienced], designed to erase her memory and drive
her insane. Their child, however, escaped the raid unharmed with her nanny, Mary Kelly. Kelly had been
a co-worker of Annie‘s, as well as a model for Sickert, and she became the child‘s nanny soon after its
birth. Knowing that the game was up, Kelly hid Alice with nuns and fled into the East End. Eventually,
she told the story to several of her cronies [Nichols, Stride and Chapman] and they decided to blackmail
the government when they needed money to pay local protection thugs. When Salisbury learned of the
threat, he called on Gull again, this time, Gull devised an elaborate scheme to silence the women based on
Masonic rituals. Enlisting the help of John Netley, a coachman, he created Jack the Ripper as a symbol of
Freemasonry. Sir Robert Anderson was enlisted to help cover up the crimes and act as lookout during the
murders. The murders would be silent messages about the power and strength of Masonry and the fate
awaiting any who opposed them. [8]
Then there is the Dear Boss letter hoax, letters reputed to have been written by Jack the Ripper in the
blood of his victims. A journalist called Fred Best reportedly confessed in 1931 that he had written the
letters to ―...keep the business alive‖. [9]
In 2009 Kelvin McKenzie, a retired newspaper editor, subjected the Dear Boss letter to handwriting
analysis from graphologist Elaine Quigley. She demonstrated, by placing a transparent copy of a known
sample of Best‘s handwriting over the letter, that he was almost certainly the author. From the deliberate
way in which the letter had been written, she deduced that Best was writing to instruction: a theory that
allowed McKenzie to speculate that T. P. O‘Connor, Best‘s editor, was complicit in order to increase the
circulation of his paper, The Star.
[1] "yawiki.org entry for Freemasonry." .
[2] "A hoax", l'Illustration, May 1. 1897- No. 2827: Paris, France.
[3] "Taxil hoax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." .
[4] "33rd Degree Freemason Initiation - Deadly Deception, Jim Shaw .
[5] Book of the Law of the Lord: Being a Translation From the Egyptian of the Law Given to Moses in Sinai. (St. James, 1851), pg. viii. This
article uses the expanded Edition of 1856:
[6] "Triple Bogey Apparel "Blog Archive " Spring 2010..." .
[7] The Enduring Mystery of Jack the Ripper, London Metropolitan Police, http://www.met.police.uk/history/ripper.htm, retrieved 31
January 2010
[8] "Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Prince Albert Victor." .
[9] http://www.thefullwiki.org/Jack_the_Ripper