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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Patrick Daly

How the Queen miraculously escaped three nailbiting assassination attempts

The Queen lived to the ripe old age of 96 after surviving not one – but three assassination attempts.

The monarch was shot at twice and in 1970 there was reportedly an attempt to derail a train her and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, were travelling on.

Two of the potentially tragic occasions were during royal tours, while another was during the huge public spectacle of the Trooping the Colour.

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