10th June
At approximately 6 PM, Queen Victoria takes a ride in a carriage with her husband, Prince Albert. Edward Oxford shoots her dead when the carriage passes by him on Constitution Hill - he is brought down by members of the public and later arrested and charged with regicide.
The Prime Minister, William Lamb, the Viscount Melbourne, is informed at his home within the hour whilst a messenger is dispatched to Hanover to inform Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover and Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, that he has become King of Britain.
It will be several days before the couriers reach Hanover and a week before Ernest Augustus will arrive in London which will effectively leave Britain with no monarch for almost a fortnight.
The Prime Minister summons his closest advisors including his Home Secretary, Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby as well as Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet and Leader of the Opposition, to meet with him the following morning regarding the issue that the country was now facing.
As word spread regarding the death of the Queen, one of those who was informed was Thomas Peronnet Thompson, former MP for Kingston upon Hull, former Governor of Sierra Leone, radical reformer and political mobiliser.
A man who had previously proposed a bill that would have disqualified Ernest Augustus from the line of succession to the British crown given his orders to dismiss the Parliament of Hanover upon arriving there in 1837.
Thompson immediately sent a message to the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition begging an urgent audience ...
At approximately 6 PM, Queen Victoria takes a ride in a carriage with her husband, Prince Albert. Edward Oxford shoots her dead when the carriage passes by him on Constitution Hill - he is brought down by members of the public and later arrested and charged with regicide.
The Prime Minister, William Lamb, the Viscount Melbourne, is informed at his home within the hour whilst a messenger is dispatched to Hanover to inform Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover and Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, that he has become King of Britain.
It will be several days before the couriers reach Hanover and a week before Ernest Augustus will arrive in London which will effectively leave Britain with no monarch for almost a fortnight.
The Prime Minister summons his closest advisors including his Home Secretary, Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby as well as Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet and Leader of the Opposition, to meet with him the following morning regarding the issue that the country was now facing.
As word spread regarding the death of the Queen, one of those who was informed was Thomas Peronnet Thompson, former MP for Kingston upon Hull, former Governor of Sierra Leone, radical reformer and political mobiliser.
A man who had previously proposed a bill that would have disqualified Ernest Augustus from the line of succession to the British crown given his orders to dismiss the Parliament of Hanover upon arriving there in 1837.
Thompson immediately sent a message to the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition begging an urgent audience ...
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