On this day in history . 2 March 1882 . - Queen Victoria survives another assassination attempt at Windsor. . . ◼ On 2 March 1882, Roderick Maclean, a disgruntled poet apparently offended by Victoria’s refusal to accept one of his poems, shot at the Queen with a pistol as her carriage left Windsor railway station. . ◼ Two schoolboys from Eton College struck him with their umbrellas, until he was hustled away by a policeman. . ◼ Victoria was outraged when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, but was so pleased by the many expressions of loyalty after the attack that she said it was “worth being shot at, to see how much one is loved”. . ◼ McLean was tried for high treason that April 20, & was found “not guilty, but insane” by a jury after five minutes’ deliberation, & he lived out his remaining days in Broadmoor Asylum. The verdict prompted the Queen to ask for a change in English law so that those implicated in cases with similar outcomes would be considered as “guilty, but insane.” This led to the Trial of Lunatics Act 1883. . ◼ This was the last of eight attempts by separate people to kill or assault Victoria over a period of forty years. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1882 #RoderickMcLean #Queen #QueenVictoria #VictorianEra #HouseofHanover #HerMajesty #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #History #BritishMonarchy #d2mar #otd #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #London #Windsor #Windsorcastle #Kensingtonpalace #britishroyalfamily #TheQueen #D2mar #Monarch (at Windsor Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9P-jPQnVhH/?igshid=sckn6cj2kp7d