WHAT IF... QUEEN VICTORIA HAD BEEN ASSASSINATED?
Jul 07, 2022
3 minutes
As the royal carriage slowly rolled along London’s Constitution Hill on a summer afternoon in 1840, two shots rang out. A lone gunman had just tried to assassinate Queen Victoria, the first of several similar attempts on her life during her long reign. She survived unscathed, but had the assassin – a young man called Edward Oxford, who was immediately tackled to the ground and arrested – been a better shot then the course of British history may have taken a very different direction.
To start, the question of succession would have
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