Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret
...For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, her bank manager is actually being nice to her, & when
...For once in Becky Bloomwood's life, things are going smoothly. She's got the dream job as a personal shopper. She's got a fabulous
...Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is on a major rescue mission! Hollywood was full of surprises, & now she's on a road trip to Las
...Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is in Hollywood! She's hanging out with celebs... or at least she will be, once her husband Luke
...During her long reign, Queen Victoria was the target of no fewer than eight assassination attempts. In seven of these cases her life was saved by poor marksmanship or misfiring weaponry, but one assailant managed to strike her with a finely wrought cane. Remarkably, all eight of her attackers lived to tell their tales, & were variously incarcerated in asylums, deported to Australia, or in a few cases eventually released into society again. Paul Thomas Murphy shows how these obscure would-be assassins effected a change in history. Their attacks on Victoria galvanised her to face them down by presenting a more public face than her forebears, thereby laying the groundwork for the monarchy as we know it today. SHOOTING VICTORIA opens up a new window onto Victorian Engl&. In exploring contemporary attitudes to madness, crime & criminality, it reveals a wealth of little-known & often surprising aspects of 19th-century British society & monarchy.