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Jubilee Plot
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Service, Westminster Abbey, 21 June 1887 by William Ewart Lockhart
Date20 June 1887
LocationWestminster Abbey, London, United Kingdom
TypeSupposed assassination attempt
TargetQueen Victoria, Westminster Abbey, British Cabinet
ChargesBringing dynamite into the country (Callan and Harkins)

The Jubilee Plot was a supposed

physical force Irish republicanism
.

Background

British agent Francis Millen

The organizer of the assassination attempt was later said to be Francis Millen, a member of

Fenians, who could then be captured.[2]

In June various newspapers reported that a plot to assassinate the Queen with bombs planted in Westminster Abbey had been discovered. In October 1887, a recently deceased American, Joseph Cohen, was declared by the Assistant Commissioner of the Police,

USA where he died under mysterious circumstances. Callan and Harkins were sentenced to fifteen years each in prison. [citation needed
]

Anti-Parnell forgeries

Earlier in the year

Parnell and other nationalist Irish MPs. The letters had been supplied by a Dublin journalist, Richard Pigott, purportedly showing that Parnell had approved of violent methods by extremist nationalist elements. The letters were shown to be forgeries, written by Pigott and sold to The Times. The case against Parnell collapsed. Pigott committed suicide and in a subsequent libel action The Times had to pay Parnell £5,000 damages. [citation needed
]

According to British journalist Christy Campbell, in his book Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria, Millen had been recruited by the British government "to stir the Fenians into bombing Britain" – a scheme designed to discredit the Home Rule movement. Campbell also claimed Millen was hired with the approval of the Conservative leader,

Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister.[2]

See also

References

  • Campbell, Christy, Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria. London: HarperCollins. 2002.
    ISBN 0-007-10482-0
  • O’Broin, Leon, The Prime Informer: A Suppressed Scandal. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1971

Notes

  1. ^ "Victoria and the big-bang theory". The Observer. 26 May 2002.
  2. ^ a b Andrew Roberts (19 May 2002). "When the prime minister plotted to kill the queen". The Telegraph.

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