Victoria blamed Bertie for her husband’s death. He was bedding an actress at the time, and the talk going around about it was not nice. An already-ill Albert visited Bertie at Cambridge to tell him to get rid of the woman, got sicker during the visit and expired shortly thereafter at Windsor.
It’s as if every generation of this family has at least one member whose lack of discretion embarrasses them all. Bertie, David, Margaret, Andrew (when I was a girl, it was Andrew and his porn star girlfriend who was in all the tabloids), Diana and now Harry. Even Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother was known in some circles in her youth as, oh, dear, “the town bike,” and people were a bit shocked when Albert George wanted to marry her.