The assassination attempt on Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 consecutive years, holds the distinction of being Britain's longest-serving monarch. He ruled the state from within a strong security circle. But even in such an impeccable security circle, he had to fall into the hands of an assassin. Several attempts were made to kill the queen.
Elizabeth II was the queen of 15 countries including England. So he had to go on many royal visits. And the assassins used to choose the times of his visit for murder. However, he survived every time he was headbutted.
The first assassination attempt was carried out in 1970 during a visit to Australia. The Queen and her husband Prince Philip completed the entire tour by train. As their train passes through the town of Lithgow, a large tree trunk is found right on the railroad tracks. The authorities were convinced that this was not an accident, but a completely planned affair. Because, the cleaning staff in charge there did not see the powder while cleaning the place before the train arrived. But Rani survived as the train moved slowly. Australia kept the incident a secret for so many years. However, in 2009, the conspiracy was revealed to the public by two officers who were investigating the accident at the time.
The second attack on the Queen was in London, in 1981. A parade was organized as per custom on the occasion of the Queen's birthday. Rani sat on her horse 'Burmese' at the start of the event. In the crowd of spectators, a 17-year-old boy named 'Marcus Sargent' was waiting for the Queen with a pistol and fired at her. Fortunately none of the six shots he fired hit the queen. His horse was startled by the sound of gunfire, but the queen managed it. The boy was later arrested and sent to prison for five years.
The third attempt happened a few months after this incident. Queen Elizabeth visited Dunedin, New Zealand. When he was getting out of the car, a gunshot was heard. A young man named 'Christopher Lewis' did that. He opened fire from Rani's car while hiding in a bathroom on the sixth floor of a nearby building. However, as Lewis's position was not in a convenient place, his bullets could not hit the queen. Like Australia, New Zealand kept the assassination attempt a secret. It was later published in 2018.
Lewis was an emotionally unstable teenager. Prior to this incident, he had committed acts of arson and animal cruelty. Apart from this, he did a great job towards the royal family. When Prince Charles later visited New Zealand in 1983, Louise tried to escape from prison to kill him. but failed. Then, when the Queen visited New Zealand again in 1995, the New Zealand government sent Lewis 600 miles away, so that he would have no chance of harming the Queen.
In addition, in 2021, a 19-year-old youth with a bow and arrow was arrested outside the Queen's 'Windsor' palace. whose name is 'Jaswant'. It is known that he came to kill the Rani to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919.
Possessing great power on the one hand, and facing several assassination attempts from within a strong security circle, Queen Elizabeth II ended her 70-year reign through natural death.
