The Cleveland Street Scandal (eBook)

How the Victorian Establishment was Almost Brought to its Knees

Neil Root (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
256 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-1-80399-665-3 (ISBN)

Infos

'A fascinating and meticulously researched look at the biggest gay scandal to hit the headlines until Oscar Wilde. Absolutely a must-read.' – Paul Donnelley, author of 501 Most Notorious Crimes
It's the summer of 1889, and the royal family is in crisis.
It is well known in polite society that the Prince of Wales's eldest son and his aristocratic acolytes are regulars at 19 Cleveland Street – a male brothel in London's West End. Bad behaviour by the gentry is accepted, but it must stay behind closed doors; they can do what they wish, but the rule that rules all is silence. The Establishment has always closed ranks – a word here and there from powerful people will put rumours swiftly to bed.
But not this time.
Onto this stage walks Detective Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard, fresh from leading the disastrous Jack the Ripper investigation the previous year. Now the reputations of men who rule half the world are under threat from a scandal that stretches all the way to the corridors of Buckingham Palace.

Autor

Neil Root was born in London in 1971. He is a journalist, having written features for national newspapers, magazines and websites, and a true crime historian. Two of his books have been longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2025
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 1889 • 19 cleveland street • aristocratic vice • bertie prince of wales • british aristocracy • british establishment cover up • Carlton Club • cleveland street • earl of euston • eddy duke of clarence • ernest parke • Fitzrovia • France • Frederick Abberline • gay brothel • Gay History • gay prostitution • gay scandal • gentry • henry james fitzroy • henry labouchere • Henry Labouchère • homosexual prostitutes • How the Victorian Establishment was Almost Brought to its Knees • inspector abberline • lgbt history • londons west end • lord arthur somerset • Lord Salisbury • male brothel • Male Homosexuality • Male Prostitution • New York • Oscar Wilde • oscar wilde trials • Paris • prince albert victor • queer history • rent boy scandal • ruling classes • Scotland Yard • Seattle • telegraph boys • Victorian homosexuality • victorian rent boys • victorian sex scandal • west end
• ISBN-10: 1-80399-665-X / 180399665X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80399-665-3 / 9781803996653