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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 Extensive original research in England and Australia has uncovered a mass of new and previously unpublished detail that makes for an absorbing read.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Kill the Queen!
• Author: Barrie Charles
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781445604572
• ISBN: 1445604574
• ID: 04479580
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Weight: 371 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 157 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. May 2012

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