At around 8:30 p.m. on September 29, 1888, Catherine Eddowes was found drunk and collapsed on Aldgate High Street in London. She was therefore locked in a holding cell and was not released to go home until 12:55 p.m. the next day, when she had sobered up enough.
When she left, she gave the police a false name—Mary Kelly, the very same name as Jack the Ripper's last officially recognized victim, twenty-five-year-old Mary Kelly.
Unlike the other victims, twenty-five-year-old Mary Kelly was young and beautiful, with many men supporting her. Georgiana had once theorized that Mary had previously served high society. If she had been involved with a political figure who did not want to be dragged into a scandal, he might have hired someone to kill her.
The killer first went to the prison, where he found Catherine Eddowes, who had registered under the false name "Mary Kelly." Later, he found the real Mary Kelly and disguised her as one of Jack's victims.
It sounded like quite the conspiracy theory, yet both Catherine Eddowes and the real Mary Kelly had used the same name. Britain was different from France; once a politician became entangled in that sort of scandal, his political career was over.
Georgiana admitted that her abilities were lacking, but that did not mean she was content to become a housewife. She had once had a family of her own, so why had she involved herself in someone else's marriage?
She had not coveted Josephine's position, though many women dreamed of it, believing they could replace her.
That was only human nature. She had once dreamed of replacing Lily too, but she had lost. Then she had hoped to win it back from another man.
So what if Bonaparte was an emperor? She did not care about