


ILLUMINATED ADDRESS - QUEEN VICTORIA Illuminated address headed "The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" "Given under our Common Seal this 15th Day of March 1882"
£600 - £800
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ILLUMINATED ADDRESS - QUEEN VICTORIA
Footnotes
The assassination attempt, one of several suffered by Queen Victoria, had taken place 2 weeks earlier on 2 March, just as she was entering her carriage after leaving the train at Windsor Station. The man who fired at her, and missed, was one Roderick Maclean. He was immediately set upon by two pupils from Eton School, who hit him on the head with their umbrellas until he was arrested.
He was tried for high treason but acquitted on the grounds of insanity, and confined to a lunatic asylum.
Provenance: Gifted by the actor Wilfred Bramble to his theatrical agent (the present owner's mother) in 1964. See illustration on preceding page.