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doing another one of those things where I want to talk about Queen Victoria, but not really so much about leaving Korea, but a thing that happened to her ten a character is often kind of left out of biology. Of her he shows up in sermons out another sittings kind of fattening sued for contacts Britain's king, William. The fourth died at twelve p m on June twentieth of eighteen. Seven, and that meant that his niece, who was Victoria and who had turned eighteen just one month earlier, was now the new monarch. Because Victoria was so young and had lived for them per so sheltered away from the world by her mother, the duchess of Kent and her mothers controllers Conroy. I will talk about both of them at length. If you get me started at a party All of great Britain was fascinated by this young unmarried queen, and that vaccination was really intense so simply via by virtue of being so young and considered kind of fresh. At this time, when there was a lot of politics going on

in great Britain that were do you know aided him in lots of years of bureaucracy and corruption in some cases, but this new queen because this new shoes romanticized and she really became this, Every object of affection for many young men we're going to talk about one young man regular who seemed really obsessed with the queen, is sometimes described as being obsessed with her, perhaps romantically. Although that's not. I was clear in my opinion, but that obsession played out in the form of repeated break ins at the royal residents of Buckingham Palace, I will say knowing several people in my life who have been stopped that you have been stopped. This episode might alarm and yes for sure yeah I mean he's often like one of the main biography that I read about him specifically is called Queen Victoria Stalker, like he's often referred to as the first celebrity

occur there. Definitely if, if you are crept out by things like that or if it is something that is a sensitive subject for you, this one may not be the episode for you. So because of some rather ridiculous. Organizational arrangements regarding the keeping of the house on the grounds of Buckingham different government offices were in charge of duties that overlap in ways that just made things incredibly inefficient at the palace, for example, the laying of a fire, fell under the duties of the office of the Lord Steward delighted. Of the fire, was the responsibility of the Lord Chamberlain. And those are like offices that fall under them. So it's not it's servants under them status, communicated downward. It was very ridiculous most any biography that you will get a Victoria or that talks about Buckingham Palace during her reign will go into detail,

on how weird it is like that to get anything, dime was just like it. ACT of God. Although slick you couldn't, the windows were launched in I'd buy one group outside by another, so they were never completely clean at the same time they just tons of crazy stuff like that, insecurity suffered in this system. There are Surely no one person or office in charge of security, there were ombudsman who were armed, but they reported through their own structure and like a military style structure and not The various offices of the palace and the ages and the porters reported to completely different departments and to none of these groups who would have theoretically seeing things that were going on in the palace and kind of keeping watch over things community with each other at all,

while the young man we're focusing on today was a persistent problem. He was not the first to exploit this problem. Over incredibly lacks palace. Security a little more than a year after Victoria became queen. A silversmith named Thomas Flower was found a sleep in a chair near the monarchs monarchs bedroom. He claimed that here it's a merry the queen, but he was considered pretty much a harmless one time. Offender, This one odd outlier, aware he near any did seem pretty harmless. I mean, as someone who would break, it house goes. He was there, We like full of flowery language about how she thought she was pretty and he didn't want to upset anybody, and you know the realisation that Victoria attracted another obsessed fan and that the person in question had access to Buckingham Palace came a year and a half into her reign than that happened on December, fourteenth,

thirty, eight and at around five, a M palace night Porter, William Cox, was startled. The boy cover insert opened the door room. He was sitting in stared at him for a moment and then shut the door and Cox, open the door to follow the boy and attempted to enquire as to whether he was there to service the chimneys, but he couldn't find anyone he did however, find a bag of stuff on the floor in the bag were some clues coins a book and a dress. The weapon belongs to an officer of the royal household, the honourable Charles Augustus, Murray, so Cox, to the man's room to investigate. There was no answer when Cox Montgomery's doors the porter, who had access to all the palace rooms via master key, unlocked the door and let himself in and it was immediately apparent that the intruder had been memories. Room Murray himself was away at the time, but some

everywhere. Even in the bed. Linens am that's. It was then tracked throughout the residents and it appeared that the boy had even been in the queen's private apartments going by where all of these suits much as were unlike Murray. Thankfully, queen was gone. She actually state at Windsor Castle the night before this so oh, they started a hunt in earnest for this mystery trespasser, which this point included, police as well as palace staff, and he was captured, away and then escaped we're window before he was finally nabbed via constable out on a line? U turn It's me a young man of an unknown age. Although estimates varied from a young teenagers, the boy even a man in his early twentieth, an arm boys person were a number of stolen items, including ladys undergarments, believed to be the queen's. They were tucked in between two layers of trousers that he were one on top of the other. In question. He claimed to be Edward cotton of Hertford and he offered no answers to.

Genes regarding how he had gained access to the palace or how long he had been there. It have been presume that he must be a chimney sweep because he was so coated with soot the next morning after police staff scrubbed some of the third and dirt off of this boy. He claimed to be Edward cotton. The appeared before him, the street. He started a story that he was the son of Henry Cotton of Hertford and that he had arrived in London. Twelve months earlier had met a man who helped him into the palace and that he had been hiding in chimneys or behind furniture by day. And then moving about the palace at night or all that time Sir minds me of like the creepy read it threads about. People discovering that somebody is living in a tiny alcove in their attic right like our hinder catholic episode, Retard wrote the person living in the attic, but his story did not hold up we'll get to that. In a moment, he claimed that pulling kitchen scraps had been enough to keep him FED and that here

actually sat in a virtually every meeting that the queen had had with her ministers during that time, like hiding behind furniture and listening to everything they said, he was not as had been believe this, According to his story, he said he was city from sleeping in the chimneys during the day. Most people did not by this story, though kitten supplies were not lack that type. At night and sleeping in a family by day was just a very dangerous prospect in a London winter even with the hoops that had to be jump through to get a buyer lit in the palace lying on. Multiple different departments come and do that work, yet they we're still lighting fires he's not not save, he would have been potentially burned to exist die of smoke inhalation from a fire in a separate, fireplace that vented through the same chimney,

so because of suspicions that still lingered that he was a sweep despite his claims, otherwise the main chimneys, that was employed by the palace was consulted. He did not work for this main chimney, sweep but they asked. Could this young man, you know have worked with him at one point, enough to get the lay out of the residents known and then return through a chimney on his own later in the palace. Sweep was like. No, he doesn't work for me in these chimneys are designed to prevent anybody getting in that way, while the police and Beth hated further. This young man was moved to Taddeo fields, bridewell prison. A survey was made of the various tradesmen who had access to the palace and many were brought. The present to see if they knew this young man in custody, no ones.

They did until an older gentleman named Henry Jones, showed up and claimed. The boy was as fourteen year old Son, who had been missing since the two had a fight a week before a third party who employed Edward Jones, not Edward cotton as an apprentice was summoned and corroborated this young man's identity. So then he went before the magistrate again. He at least at that point, seem to have the correct name: yeah cotton was a Is he just pulled out of the air, presumably to not get himself for his family in trouble, but we're talk about how the legal proceedings of this case in the break in played out, but first we're gonna pause for a sponsoring. Here's the thing. Saving money with Geico was almost better than playing pick up basketball, because there's always that guy who joined your game

he never passes the rock he constantly bricks theories and who completely you and then put his hands up and say no foul, no foul with Geico, it's easy to switch save on car insurance known. The vacant ankle sprain because you're absolutely exhausted, so which in save with back it's almost better than sports, going back to our story. When Edward Jones once again found himself in court, it was to face the formal charges for the theft Murray, sword and other property. This time, on his story was a little different about how he had got into the palace. He clay, You have followed another man in through workers entrance on December, eleventh just three days before he was discovered, so he bandit that whole. I was there for almost a year story Jones, barrister, William Pendergast, ticker, really breezy approach to defending his client. He characterized Edward

who just want to see the impact of Buckingham Palace and who then grabbed a few items as mementoes of his visit even got little lost in the fantasy being a royal himself and without this set up Pendergast whip. I'm to frame the prosecution, is being far too serious and pursuing seriously action against the boy who merely had a lark of sneaking into the palace, defence, along with the calling of several character witnesses, who assure jurors that Edward changes, good lad, landed the outcome that printer had hoped for the jury found Edward Jones not guilty the press adequate quite a good time of covering this I'll and verdict, while Edward was written about by some journalists with a lot of humor publications found the lack of repercussions for his actions, just completely unacceptable, was very divided their literally, where people that kind of took the

position that his barrister had of like commodities as a kid. Any did something stupid and you know don't let it ruins. And other people are like he broke into the palace. So you know it's easy. If the same thing happened today, we would probably see a similar division play out There were also satire magazines that did their whole own other, take on it, but Edward immediately return to the apprenticeship that he had before his little sojourn into Buckingham, though his new found fame came with all kinds of opportunities. He was allegedly offered passage the U S to make his fortune in America and he was off theatrical appearance in a stage play about his story, but Edwards Father him Who was a tailor, turned down these offers on his sons, behalf, hoping that his son would just stay the course. It is work. You do go on to be a productive adult and leave the fair at the palace completely behind him, but by Lady

In thirty, nine Edward had been fired from his job as a builders apprentice, because he was simply not good as an employee soon was offered another job running errands for an apothecary, but that didn't last either and after that the young Jones was unemployed for the most part, although he did occasionally help his father out in his shop, his work was pretty sporadic. He did it It sounds like you did a few other odd jobs, but he didn't really have any one job for any length of time and, in the meantime, Queen Victoria had married her cousin, Prince Albert on February, tenth eighteen, forty in November they had their first child princess Victoria in the following months. Just two weeks after the princess Royals birth, Edward Jones once again entered the picture and the palace

as the queen's midwife. Mrs Lily, who slept in the nursery, was falling asleep at one thirty, a m on December third, eighteen forty, she heard a door creaking. She got out of bed and searched in the darkness to try to find the source of the noise and went to five or to Queen Victoria. The dressing room was solely being open. She called out who's there and the door, immediately slammed shut. I don't know you, but I would freak out and lose my mind about situation. I am freaking out now the Junta Missus Linley was a quick thinker and that particular dull door bolted from the side. She was so she bolted it and she trapped here We're had done this slamming inside and after com. For help. She was then joined by one of the queen's pages in the queen's former governess. Baroness Layton three of them then opened the door and they searched the dressing room together. They

found Edward Jones curled up under a sofa, dens was taken into account an identified as the same intruder from two years earlier, as with the first time that he was apprehended, he was quite silent when questioned as to how we got in how long he had been there Lily, listen and the page had all been really call about this whole affair. So the queen, who was in the neck, and was not even awakened and didn't hear about it until the next day, and when she did hear about it, Victoria wrote about it in her journal, quote Albert told me that he had just heard when he got up. That a man had been found under the sofa in my sitting room and then she on to describe basically what we ve just said here about how MRS Lily and latent in this page, apprehended him says later. In the same into an entry, she writes quote after he had been taken downstairs, he said he meant no harm and had only come to see the queen. We have

turn that he was in the palace once before and was half witted and had merely come out of curiosity. But supposing he had come into the bedroom? How frightened? I should have been you will recall. The queen had actually been away that first time that dunes had visited her apartment in the palace, and it appears that, despite the news coverage of that subsequent trial, she had been spared the knowledge that a stranger had been in her personal space, and there's a lot of the eurozone about. Why that's the case like that, it would look. It would make the palace staff look we bad. So nobody really wanted to lake these terribly public that it had happened. But in any case, it was decided that Edward Jones was going to be tried this time in a very old fashioned way by the queen's Privy council, and this was a system that haven't been employed since the tutor period, it has historically been used to try people for treason.

That we're so elevated that they could have easily bought the outcome of a trial in regular courts, but because, we're Jones is first trial had been something of a circus. Thanks to this jovial and dismissive tone, his defence took and that people bought into he too be unlikely to get a serious trial in normal court this ITALY, a core trial, would invite all sorts of questions about the monarchy in the palace, and this credibly lack security, none of which they were eager to invite. I think if I were the queen at this point, I would be like I am moving rooms, So with another hearing on the horizon, we're going to pause for another sponsor break, and then we will come back to the story. Sponsor is one that we both use. Yet it is clear space. This package is brought hereby

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with the Privy council assembled in the hearing under way, Edward told the assembly that, when he was found in the queen's dressing room, that was actually the second time in rapid succession that he had entered the palace unobstructed according to do exist surmounting. He had scaled a wall of the gardens and entered the palace through a window on Monday evening. He hoped to steal a snack, but there were too many people around, so he left. He returned Tuesday night wander around. A bit and swept under the bed of one of the servants steering the day Wednesday, so creepy I cleaved myself out, reading, that's it Is it really creepy Wednesday night? Once everyone had settled in the evening, he once again explored the palace. This time eventually making his way to the throne room than having it in the monarchs cheer hidden wandered around the queen's room, eventually settling under the sofa where he had been found. So it's,

clear. If the door opening and closing that alerted MRS Lily had been thwarted, effort on his part to wander a bit more, but if so after he had realized. Been seen. He apparently went right back to his under the sofa hiding place after in estimating the wall that Edward claim to have scaled calling in the young man, Father Henry Jones to scold him for letting his son behave so poorly, debating over Edwards men's sound mess. The privy council opted to issue a punishment of three months, hard labor. Additionally, the whole incident catalyze big examination of the palace security as well. It should have probably the first time for that. We got it ever a press release was made, giving only scant information about the activities of Jones and how his hearing had played out, but because

The story was so tantalizing. The press hunted down more details and eventually became that. Edward Jones was in the total street house corrections, and he was happy to talk about all of his adventures in the kitchen in the throne, room and other areas of the palace, so it long before all the particulars of this event, where public Knowledge Jones told the press that he had gained access to the Alice through a chimney. Rather than the more mundane window entry which, by the way, investigation had verified because they have found marks, and I saw that he claimed here come in through He also said that he was going to write a book about this whole thing, see where we get into rewarding bad behaviour. Oh yeah, that's gonna, happen lot Edward Jones was released from his incarceration unmarked. Second, eighteen, forty one into the custody of his father, we need to enjoy a certain level of celebrity, because papers were happy to prevent any details. A big heard about him, looking Lou

with loiter outside the family home, hoping to get a glimpse of the person who was so very good at waltzing right into Buckingham Palace mentioned earlier. The repeat: appearance of Edward Jones in the palace had led to a close look at the security problems there. Since that Breakin by Jones, the Royal home had been guarded regularly by more than two dozen police at all times, so it came as something of a surprise when Edward Jones was found once again inside Buckingham Palace in the We hours of March, sixteenth eighteen, forty one just two weeks after he had finished hard, labor sentence. This time a police sergeant Glover was with petroleum he heard a noise and then when it follows that the picture gallery found a pair of dirty shoes on the floor Don't let a nearby alcove eating cold meat and potatoes from the Kitchen

this third time around when Edward was asked how he got in, he simply said that he had done it the same way as before, not giving details as to what that way was bitter saying where was do when quest the following morning by the police. He told them tat. He was gathering information for his book and that he had hoped to eavesdrop on and record a conversation between the queen and Prince Consort for that book. Jones, told the inspectors, You have seen in the library and read some of the books, which he proved by naming several of the books on the shelves and that he had handled a coronet in some jewels. He was next taken before the present, but the privy council for their questioning and this time after their last dealings with Edward Jones resulted in a huge press drama in him getting famous for it.

Pretty council moved really swiftly and they kept very tightly on information. Jones was once again sentenced to three months hard labor in the press went hungry. When it came to me, deals, but just the same. Innumerable articles were printed about the boy Jones, as he was called at this point in all of these were based pretty much on speculation and, in some cases, entirely fabricated information that was posing as facts best before seemed to be on Jones aside. They sort of thought. It was kind of hilarious and great that this commoner could just straw into the palace. Others were, of course, actually against his behaviour, recognizing that it was horrible, creepy and yet others just one capitalize on the story by printing various satirical pieces about it, often at the expense of the royal family and somewhat famously anchor and Virus Thomas rigs wrote in his journal at the time quote a little scamp of an apothecary. His errand boy named Jones have the

council media of speaking privately into Buckingham Palace, where he found secretive at night under a sofa or some other hiding place? No one divine his object, but twice he has been detected and conveyed to the police and put into confinement for a time. The other day he was detected in a third attempt with apparently ass little object, waiting sandwich wrote that he must undoubtedly be a descendant of. I go Jones, the architect This was, of course, a play on the name of the sixty century wealth architects in Eager Jones who constructed the core. House at Greenwich and Covent garden among other famous structures. Although it seem like Edward Jones, was really only good at one thing which was getting into Buckingham Palace. It was really good at it, so much further than that We have made a massive celebrity far away, The levels of fame has first to intrusions, has garnered and what became

Edward Jones after this is a whole other story and so we're gonna wait and share that in our next episode. Sorry to be all cliff, he again, but his life story. Please outline some really weird and fascinating ways I don't like little creeper lots of people did a very bad things do happen too long away, but yeah. It's very weird like the idea that this person, just repeatedly, will show up in the palace and leg. Very close to where the royal family was their Labour to you, when you consider like that there were points where he was there when a tiny infant was there. There is lots of light. Speculation going around the palace like what, if he had snatched the princess legged what if he had just taken this two week old infants, yeah yeah

The throwing around it reminds me a bit of our life sounds about presidential assassinations and sort of the progression there being literally any security around the President yeah because some of the earlier attempts were like and then a guide us locked up and Edith was there, and then it became okay. Now we actually have the secret service a year, you're pretty strange and creepy. There's nobody wants somebody rain, sing it out in their house in going through their stuff and stealing their undergarments and eating their food. No that's creeping groves. Super creepy, they also listener Mayo, and is it not creepy it is not only not creepy, it is also my love it. This is one of those things we get lots of listener, Mayo, it's all pretty great, but We once Roy you open one and you're just like this is great great, and that's this one

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