One of the book's characters, Sim Tappertit, was modelled on Oxford; Tappertit is described as a "vainglorious apprentice" by Murphy and a "sinister and darkly comical figure" by Hurst.

Learn about Nairobi, sample local coffee in the Aberdares and finish up with a fantastic safari stay in the Masai Mara. At around 6:00pm Queen Victoria—four months pregnant with her first child, Victoria, the Princess Royal—and Prince Albert left the palace in their drosky, an open-topped horse-drawn carriage, accompanied by the postillions (the drivers mounted on horses) and two outriders. Riding on a 19-year-old horse, the monarch remained remarkably calm as the police wrestled the shooter to the ground.Hamilton’s attempt was unsuccessful, some say because the pistol was unloaded, and he spent his subsequent days in exile – five years of hard labour in Gibraltar and the rest in Fremantle, Western Australia. The annual Trooping the Color is a one of the Brits’ most festive events, with thousands of parading soldiers, musicians and horses in the streets and a RAF fly-by, every June. Fifteen judges reported back to the Lords and their answers formed the M'Naghten rules on instructions to be given to a jury for a defence of insanity. The prince had no time to process what he saw before 18-year-old barkeep Edward Oxford fired his dueling pistol at the queen, who was four months pregnant with the couple’s first child. Albert reported seeing “a little, swarthy, ill-looking rascal” point a pistol at the queen and pull the trigger – but the gun failed to fire and the would-be assailant quickly tucked it away and disappeared into Green Park.

Seeking notoriety, Oxford was found guilty but insane, and spent 24 years in an asylum before being deported to Australia.Believing that the best way to flush out the would-be assassin was for the royal couple to leave the palace again the following day, Victoria and Albert were nervous as they circled London for an evening drive in an open barouche. Culture Trip uses an independent third party trust account held by PT Trustees Limited in accordance with the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations.

In 1981, Marcus Sarjeant was jailed for five years under the section of the Treason Act after he fired blank shots at the Queen while she was riding down The Mall in London during the Trooping the Colour parade.Bean said the queen’s life was never endangered as his pistol was loaded with more tobacco than gunpowder and pointed to the ground. However, none of these three versions have been released, or are available on MP3's, so very little is known about the track.