Assassination attempt against Queen Victoria, Constitution Hill, Westminster, London Avoiding Little Dean's Yard

Little Dean's Yard

Queen Elizabeth I with crown and orb on a cushion

View looking east of men working on construction of Holborn Viaduct

to the left a woman is holding a stick over her kneeling husband and twisting his nose

Assassination attempt against Queen Victoria, Constitution Hill, Westminster, London Avoiding Little Dean's YardAssassination attempt against Queen Victoria, Constitution Hill, Westminster, London, 1840. Scene of Edward Oxford's attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on the evening of Wednesday 10th June, 1840. Oxford was tried for high treason but acquitted on grounds of insanity. He was sent to Bethlem Hospital, where he remained until 1864, when the criminal patients were transferred to Broadmoor. In 1867 he was released on condition that