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Royal Family News – The Queen Is A Target
Elizabeth Windsor, Queen Elizabeth II, is the queen of 15 countries and there have been times when evil-doers tried to do her in abroad.
The first assassination attempt happened in 1970 in Australia. She and her husband, Prince Philip, were on a train, and near the town of Lithgow a large log was found on the tracks. It was not considered accidental, “because a sweeper train had gone through the area an hour beforehand and found nothing,” according to Grunge.
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The second attempt occurred in June 1981 in London at the annual Trooping the Colour parade. The Queen was on her horse, Burmese, when a teen named Marcus Sarjeant fired six rounds from a starter pistol as she queen passed by. All were blanks and the queen’s horse was startled, but she quickly regained control. Sarjeant was arrested, tried, and sentenced to five years in prison.
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A few months later the Queen was in Dunedin, New Zealand and had just stepped out of a car when a .22 rifle shot rang out. It was from teen Christopher Lewis, fired from the fifth-floor bathroom of a nearby building. He missed and the event came to light years later in 2018.
When Prince Charles visited New Zealand in 1983, Lewis tried to break out of prison to kill him and when the, “Queen returned in 1995, the government sent him over 600 miles away so he wouldn’t have the opportunity to be anywhere near her.”
In July 1982, Queen Elizabeth had another scare when she awoke to an intruder in her bedroom, a shard of glass in his hand. It was Michael Fagan, an unemployed man from London, who one month earlier snuck in, “tripped multiple alarms, drank a bottle of wine, and had some snacks in the royal residence. Fagan said he was just looking for the restroom.”
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Royal Family News – Is The Queen Safe In The Palace?
Finally, the most recent attempt on Her Majesty’s life occurred in 2021 when another teenager, Jaswant Singh Chail, “was found outside Windsor Castle with a crossbow on Christmas morning. He was promptly taken into custody before he could enter any buildings. In a Snapchat video, “he said that he was going to kill the queen on Christmas day in revenge for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in which up to 1,000 people were killed in India by British troops.” In the video he called himself a Sith (from “Star Wars”) and called himself Darth Jones. Luckily the 95-year old queen has survived all of these attempts on her life and is set to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee this year.
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