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How did a would-be assassin of Queen Victoria avoid the death penalty and become an Australian journalist? New Mail podcast follows the long history of deadly plots against Britain's most famous monarch

Prince Albert, Victoria's husband, once asked of his often-targeted wife: 'What's all this mania with Queen shooting?'

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