My name is Tineke Molenaar.
The first time I read about Prince Albert Victor was in the year 2013 and what I read, on the internet, was not something I liked. Firstly I didn’t know that he had ever existed and secondly ‘What a horrible person he must have been’, I thought, and ‘how lucky he didn’t become a King, that would have been a disaster!’ And I went on with my life. Part of that life was that I visited Sandringham early October 2014 and there, in a shop, was Andrew Cook’s ‘Prince Eddy, the King Britain never had’. I read the blurb, some inside pages and bought the book. During reading early 2015 I realised, having worked with people with (mental) handicaps and as an aunt of a nephew and a niece with symptoms related to the Prince’s, that there might be something simular the matter with the Prince. Very inconvenient for himself and for the people surrounding him so I started a small investigation. And there were more ‘speculations’, which I had read in Andrew Cook's 'Prince Eddy', which I questioned. Before I knew I was investigating more and it became bigger.
But why would I do that. Just because I had read so much nonsense on the internet and in books, so many insinuations, everything moulded any whichway the author wanted, so completely unfounded that I didn’t want this Prince, whose ‘infinite sweetness of nature’ was always mentioned, to go down in history the way it happens now, ‘by error and supposition’. I would like to see the ‘speculations’ in context and show the facts ’before time and unchallenged repetition have given their sanction to misconceptions’, as the Duke of Windsor wrote in the author’s note of his ‘A King’s story’. Prince Eddy, as I came to know him, doesn't deserve this and knowing of my nephew’s and niece’s struggle in life to be accepted and trying to adjust themselves to a society that they don’t understand and that doesn’t understand them and shut them out because they are different, I would like to give the Prince a chance by telling people who are openminded and are willing to accept an explanation based on facts and within context, the truth. I am not an author, when I read this book again I would have done things a bit different, but the outcome would be the same.