page_title: The boy Jones
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: The boy Jones / Biography / Early life
context_page_description: Edward Jones, nicknamed "the boy Jones" by newspapers of the time, was a British teenager who became notorious for breaking into Buckingham Palace multiple times between 1838 and 1841. He later became the subject of a children's book and the film The Mudlark. The full story of his activities has been told in the 2010 book Queen Victoria's Stalker: The Strange Case of the Boy Jones, written by Jan Bondeson.
context_section_description: Edward Jones was the son of a tailor in Westminster.
caption: Buckingham Palace c. 1837 with the Marble Arch in its original position.
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