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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/queen-victoria-stalked-by-teenager.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Jan Bondeson's book tells the story of a stalker who stole Queen Victoria's underwear" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-queen-victoria-stalked-by-teenager.jpg" alt="Jan Bondeson's book tells the story of a stalker who stole Queen Victoria's underwear"/></a></p>
<p>It is generally assumed that stalkers are a product of the modern age, but more than 170 years ago a teenager relentlessly pursued Queen Victoria.</p>
<p>Edward Jones was aged just 14 when he first broke into Buckingham Palace in 1838 and returned twice more to wander around the monarch&#8217;s private apartment and even steal her personal items.</p>
<p>The teenager gained access to the royal chambers, taking some of the Queen&#8217;s underwear, and even sat on the throne.</p>
<p>After he had been hauled out from underneath a sofa in her dressing room, the sovereign wrote in her diary: &#8220;If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been&#8221;.</p>
<p>Jan Bondeson, an expert on London history, has written a book, Queen Victoria&#8217;s Stalker, which tells the story of the teenager.</p>
<p>The obsessed young man was tried three times and imprisoned twice before the authorities eventually spirited him away to a foreign country to ensure his silence, according to the new book.</p>
<p>Mr Bondeson, a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at Cardiff University, told the Daily Mail: &#8220;He sat on the throne, he looked at books in the royal library and he went inside Queen Victoria&#8217;s private apartments &#8211; once he even stole her underwear.</p>
<p>&#8220;The amazing thing is really how close he was able to get to the Queen, and the extraordinary lengths the authorities went to to get rid of him.</p>
<p>&#8220;They were worried about what the boy Jones might tell people.&#8221;</p>
<p>The stalker eventually died in 1893 in his seventies after a drunken fall.</p>
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