Tried To Kill Victoria

Slaoe her Majesty came to the throns .-..Bhe kaa been the subject of six attacks, tm. pidy three oí them can be described .as atbempts on her life. The flrst afhack 'b the Queen occurred on ConstltttUa HUI, on June 10, 1840, soon after "her majTlage, the assailant belng a pot "boy la&nied Edward Oxford. Two years later, on May 39, 1842, John Francia ïftseö at the Queen when within a few 3Ceetsi her carriage. This outrage also E place on Constitution HUI. In July of the same year a crack-brained lad named Bean leveled a loaded pisto] mt her Majesty, who was driving from kingham Castle to the Chapel RoyBt James, but the weapofi mlssed iöre. In May, 1S50, Robert Pate, an ex'nant in the Hussars, as the royal lage was emerging from the Duke of Cambridge's gate, struck the Queen Twíih a stick, leaving a mark on her - hesk and crushing her bonnet. In i uiry, 1872, a youth named Arthur iyCoancvr presented an old and uniloaJíBt pïstol at her Majesty as she was I Buckingham Palace, and on 'Mar-iL :2, 1882, a man named Roderick Iaiiioan deliberately flred at the Queen An was driving from Windsor Stainr itE ithe castle, but no damags was i-ionfc.