Jane Ridley

Taking a pop at the Queen

  • Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem and the Modernisation of the Monarchy

    Paul Thomas Murphy

    Head of Zeus, pp. 669

On 10 June 1840 an 18-year-old out-of-work Londoner named Edward Oxford cocked his pistol and fired two shots at Queen Victoria as she made her daily carriage drive with Prince Albert on Constitution Hill. Oxford was mobbed by the crowd, who shouted ‘Kill him!’ He was charged with high treason.

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