Kill the Queen! : The Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria EPUB
by Barrie Charles
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Queen Victoria was our longest reigning monarch, a symbol of Britain's great age of power and imperialism.
But her life could so easily have been cut short. Just three years after she ascended to the throne, a humble 'pot-boy' fired a brace of pistols at her from just six paces away.
She escaped unharmed, but amazingly there were seven further attacks or attempts on her life over the next forty-seven years.
The perpetrators were a mixture of madmen, attention-seekers, and fiends: the unemployed carpenter who ended up transported to the hell of a labour camp in Van Dieman's Land; the midget newsvendor who eventually took his own life; the army officer who dressed as a dandy; the disaffected artist, and the Fenian terrorists.
Through it all there is Victoria; how she coped with the fear and became a symbol of resolve and determination.
Each chapter of this book captures the drama of the attack and uncovers the would-be assassin's motives, describing their lives up to that point, their trial and sentence, and what became of them afterwards. Extensive original research in England and Australia has uncovered a mass of new and previously unpublished detail that makes for an absorbing read.
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- Pages:160 pages, 25 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Amberley Publishing
- Publication Date:15/05/2012
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- ISBN:9781445612676
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:160 pages, 25 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Amberley Publishing
- Publication Date:15/05/2012
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- ISBN:9781445612676
