The Strange Story of The Boy Jones
After her coronation in 1838, Queen Victoria was a frightened young woman. She was relentlessly pursued by a weird teenager, Edward 'the boy' Jones, who had an uncanny ability to sneak into Buckingham Palace without being detected. Once, he broke into her bedroom and stole her underwear, and at least twice he sat on the throne.
'If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been', the Queen wrote in her journal after the Boy Jones had been hauled from underneath a sofa in her dressing room.
This book tells the full story of the Boy Jones, one of the first celebrity stalkers in history. It suggests that stalking is not a 'modern phenomenon', rather a relabeling of aberrant human behaviour that has been known for centuries.
Includes 47 illustrations.
