Prince Albert died of syphillis?

I take back my original post after watching a UK documentary recently, about Prince 'Eddy' Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, who died in January 1892.

The doc was based largely upon the Prince's own letters to Prince Louis of Battenberg, his cousin. This chap differed in character 100% from his cold, sober and rigid younger brother, George V (later king and grandfather of today's Queen Liz II).

'Eddy' was sympathetic to poor people, endeared by the Australians ('Colonials' where society was not rigid and formal) to Irish Home Rule (unlike his mighty grandmother, Victoria), fell in love with a working class Englishwoman and a French Catholic noblewoman, amongst other women. He even appears to have possibly not been bisexual- another accusation thrown at him due to his mixing with students at Cambridge who may have been.

Yet his reputation today has been forever scarred by a series of incorrect and damning rumours- wrongly accused by an author in 1970 of being the Ripper of 1888 (he was not even in London during all of the killings) and also contemporary homosexual impropriety at Cleveland Street (which did involve an earl, two MP's and Eddy's own equerry- all hushed up, partly by Inspector Abberline who was withdrawn from the Ripper case for this) and who supposedly died of syphilis. He actually died after a short bout of flu, which had devastated England the few years before.
BUT, only 2 years before he died, 1890, various doctors were treating 'Eddy' for an undisclosed physical condition- which may or may not have been a sexual disease?

He was also labelled 'slow', but it appears that his tutor was obssessively controlling and sought to discredit the Prince, who seems to have preferred the good life. Proof perhaps of his real intelligence was the intended vital role for which he was being groomed in his last few years- which might have been controversial- as Viceroy of Ireland.

The documentary suggests that his reputation may have been deliberately allowed to suffer in order to boost the apparently dull George V, who was cold to his wife (once engaged to Eddy), harsh with his children and refused to allow his doomed cousin, Tsar Nicholas II (and his wife, Alix of Hesse, who had spurned Eddy in the 1880's) to flee to Britain after the 3rd Russian Revolution, of 1917.

Tonyclapson...do some research. It's based on a graphic novel, you idiot. At no point is it trying to pretend to be factual, merely a thought-provoking entertainment.

And the accents were fine. I'm from London, I know.