Lucky Queen

The Eight Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria

Autor: Barrie Charles

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Queen Victoria was our longest-reigning monarch, a symbol of Britain's great age of power and imperi...

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Autor

Barrie Charles

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2014

Pagini

288

EAN

9781445643694

ISBN

1445643693

Enbook ID

04799031

Editura

Amberley Publishing

Greutate

304

Dimensiuni

124 x 198 x 23

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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' left the house with two guns bulging from his trouser pockets and a feeling of purpose and determination. 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 fascinating new detail that makes for an absorbing read.

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