 The Cleveland Street Scandal itself took place in 1889 when a homosexual male brothel in Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, London was discovered by police.Among others, it was rumoured that Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales and 2nd in line to the British throne, had visited the brothel.In 1890, Lord Ronald as well as Lord Errol were implicated, along with the prominent social figure Alexander Meyrick Broadley, who fled abroad for four years.