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Carregando... Queen Victoria's Stalker: The Strange Case of the Boy Jones (True Crime History)de Jan Bondeson
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Stealing her Majesty's undergarments! ( ) The 'Boy Jones'--a young lad whose fascination with the young Queen Victoria motivated his repeated infiltrations of Buckingham Palace--is mentioned in nearly all bios of the Queen, but his own story has not been told. Here it is, for the first time, documented and with insightful commentary by the author, and parallels to modern-day incidents stalking. What is fascinating is that although the boy was apprehended 3 times, the exact number of other undetected infiltrations will perhaps never be known. The author communicates the great embarrassment to the government and palace officials when the boy was caught even after security had supposedly been improved. Excellent story, and reads quickly. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The amazing tale of Britain's first celebrity stalker. After her coronation in 1838, Queen Victoria was a frightened young woman. She was relentlessly pursued by a weird teenager, Edward, 'the Boy' Jones, who had an uncanny ability to sneak into Buckingham Palace without being detected. Once, he broke into her bedroom and stole her underwear, and at least twice he sat on the throne. 'If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been', the Queen wrote in her journal after the Boy Jones had been hauled out from underneath a sofa in her dressing room. This book tells the full story of the Boy Jones, one of the first celerity stalkers in history: his heady days as a media celebrity, and the long and bitter years as a Britain's galley slave, imprisoned without charge or trial. It suggests that 'stalking' is not a modern phenomenon, rather a relabeling of aberrant human behaviour that has been known for centuries. It also raises the moral question of what lengths the authorities should go to 'remove' some royal stalker or potential assassin, since the Boy Jones was held captive in breach of habeas corpus for longer than any wartime fascist, IRA member or Moslem terrorist. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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