Victoria's Anxiety After Edward's Exoneration

In 1840, a man motivated by his belief that a woman should not be rolling England tries to assassinate Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as they're leaving the palace in an open carriage. But amazingly, even after all of these things, Queen Victoria's royal court still fails to put in any meaningful security measures in place to better protect her. In 1839, the year after Edward's break-in, the queen is caught up in a huge political scandal. She publicly accused one of her own maids of having an out of wetlock pregnancy when in fact the maid had developed a tumor so large, it made her abdomen look like she was pregnant.