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QUEEN VICTORIA |
It is a true story
about Queen Victoria got her bloomers nicked
This is such a fascinating and
amusing story about the bloomers belonging to Queen Victoria. A teen stalker
was nicking the bloomers of the Queen and she was not amused when she found
out.
A Cardiff University professor Dr
Bondeson heard about this story and pieced it together from newspaper cuttings.
He wrote a book about it and it is called Queen Victoria's Stalker which is on
sale now.
The story was not very publicized
until now because the whole affair was kept secret as much as possible.
Edward Jones was 14 years old and
broke several times into Buckingham Palace. He sat on the throne and slept in
one of the Royal beds -- no, not with Queen Victoria. He managed to slipped
into the young Queen Victoria's apartment. He read her letters, and hit beneath
her sofa. She was 19 years old at that time.
Queen Victoria remarked afterwards:
"Suppose he had come into the bedroom how frightened I should have
been."
The record shows that Jones broke in
three times from 1838 to 1841. Every time he was close to the newly crowned
Queen but for a few yards but then he was caught. On one occasion he tried to
get out of the Queen's dressing room window with a pair of the Queen's bloomers
stuffed down his trousers.
At the first time Jones was acquitted
in an open court for theft. The following trials were held in secret to avoid
publicity and embarrassing the Royal family. Twice he received a sentence of
hard labour and in those days it was really hard labour. However, the moment he
was freed he went back to the palace. Eventually the government had no
alternative but to transport him to Australia. This at last would ensure Jones
would be kept away far enough from the Queen and her husband Prince Albert.
This amazing and amusing story of
Jones the teenage stalker was known to the police as Boy Jones. It was due to
hard work of piecing it together from old newspaper reports by Dr Ian Bondeson
that it became widely known. He stated that it was remarkable how close he got
to the Queen and the extraordinary lengths it took to get rid of him.
The reason for this point was that
they were worried about what Boy Jones might tell people. No one knew what he
had seen or heard in the palace.
Dr Bondeson added: “The Boy Jones was
the first known celebrity stalker in history. If he shown signs of madness they
would have locked him up, but he was fully lucid. He was undesirable so they
just stuck him on a ship to Australia and got rid of him."
Due to further research, Dr Bondeson
found out that Jones was working as a pie seller in Australia. He died in his
70s on Boxing Day 1893 after falling off a bridge while drunk.
SUMMARY: There is no doubt the story
of Queen Victoria's bloomers being nicked is a really amusing story. The author
Dr Ian Bondeson must have just as fascinated and therefore done this hard work
of research and written the book Queen Victoria's Stalker.
I hope you enjoyed ‘How Queen
Victoria’s bloomers were nicked’ as much as I did. Thank you for reading it.
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