The times., 1899-01-04
A CHARMED LIFE.
The Queens nany Escapes From
Accidents and Assassips.
(From the London Mail.)

(From the London Mai)
Gradually the truth is leaking cut con-
cerning the recent accident that occurred
to the carriage in which the Queen and
her eldest daughter. the Empress Fred
erick, were driving, which, although min
imized, at the period, was extremely
alarming to the royal occupants of the
equipage.
Contrary 10 general belief. the Queen
has experienced many dangers, and it is
questionable il there is any lady living at
the present time who has had as many
and as varied escapes from death as Her
Majesty. From her babyhood upward her
life has been constantly imperiled. When
only six months of age she escaped death
almost by miracle. Her parents. the
Duke and Duchess CT Kent. had taken the
royal child TO Sidmouth, Devonshire, for
change of air. boy shooting sparrows
accidentally discharged a gun opposite a
window at which a nurse, holding the in
fant in her arms. was standing The glass
was completely shattered and the nurses
sleeve was riddled with shot, but both the
| nurse and baby princess escaped injury.
Four years afterward the princess life
was saved by an Irish soldier The pony
1 carriage in which she was driving upset
/ and would have fallen on her had it not
| been for the promptness with which a
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| little girls white frock and tossed her up
| into his arms. Curiously enough the SOL
| dier was net aware until fifty-four years
| had passed that the child whose life he
| had saved had grown up to be the Queen
| Of England.
| No fewer than seven attempts have
| been made upon Her Majesty's life but
| with the exception of a slight wound on
her cheek. she escaped scratchless from
| after her marriage an insane pot-bo
named Oxford, fired twice at the Queen
| in Hyde Park. Two years afterward as
the Queen and Prince Albert were driv-
| ing hcme from church, the Prince Con-
| sort saw man present pistol and fire
point blank at Her Majesty: The weapon
| fortunately, flashed in the pan. The next
day the same man, fellow named Fran
! cis again fred at the Queen This time
| he was captured, tried for high treason.
| and sentenced to death, but by ROYAL
| command his sentence was commuted to
| transportation for life. The very day the
| royal clemency was made known a de-
formed lad named Bean attempted to take
| Her Majesty's life. Seven years after
| ward a man named Hamilton fired at the
| Queen, and the next year an eX-captain
Of hussars. named Pate, cut open Her
Majesty's face with a blow from a stick.
| In lSi2 a iau named u COnnOr was pre-
vented from firing at the Queen by the
late John Brown. and ten years later a
man named Maclean fired at Her Majesty
as she was entering her carriage at Wind
sor station.
Soon after the CORONATION, when her maj
esty was driving with her mother neal
Highgate HILL the horses took fright. They
were stopped by a publican, who. wheI
asked to name his reward. said, "Perms
sion to put the Queens arms on my sign.
; Next day he received the present of
pocketbook from her majesty, of which h
laconically observed that 1T was heavy
very heavy" The Queen was also in peri
of her life by carriage accident in Scot
land. and twice has been in imminent dan
ger at sea. When a girl of fourteen. dur
ing yachting excursion, she was dragge
from under falling mainmast by a pilo
! named Saunders, and saved from death
! Forty-two years after this the royal yach
, collided with vessel named the Mistletoe
and two people were drowned within sigh
l of the Queen. Her majesty was in rail
way collision in 1856.
In all these trying experiences the Quee
maintained her possession. and sh
? herself has observed that one thought o
+, such occasions has been the regret at leav
: ing certain duties in which she was the
| engaged unfulflled