Eight Attempts to Kill Queen Victoria: The Real Story (1819-1901)

Seven men raised a pistol or a stick against Queen Victoria, eight times in forty-two years. This is the story of the woman they were aiming at, from the morning she was born to her last January at Osborne. A feature-length documentary in one unbroken story: no jumping back and forth, just what happened, in the order it happened. Kensington, 1819: a baby girl nobody expects to reign. We follow her through the walled childhood, the six o'clock knock on the door in 1837, the coronation and Lord Melbourne, the proposal only a queen can make, the shots on Constitution Hill and the men who fired them, the Great Exhibition and the Victoria Cross, the death of Albert in the Blue Room, John Brown, the title of Empress of India, the Golden Jubilee and the last shot at Windsor station in 1882. Chapters 0:00 The Girl on the Stairs 5:42 Six O'Clock in the Morning 11:22 The Heavy Orb 16:36 A Question Only She Can Ask 20:16 Fool That I Was Not to Fire 25:17 Great Events Make Me Calm 31:21 For Valour 38:07 The Blue Room 43:15 The Highland Servant 48:55 Queen and Empress 56:36 Fifty Years 1:01:25 Osborne, in January About this documentary A narrated documentary based on real events, on the trials of the attackers and on the queen's own journals and letters. Quoted words are recorded words; nothing is invented. Where the record is uncertain, we say so. Narrated by an AI voice. Images AI-generated and checked for period accuracy. The script was written for this channel. If you want more stories of nations that rose, fought and fell, subscribe and keep the watchfire burning. For slow, music-free versions of these histories to fall asleep to, visit our sister channel Candlelight Sleep Stories. #history #documentary #queenvictoria #victorian #historydocumentary