Why did queen Victoria divorce with prince Albert?

Answer 1

Queen Victoria was the target of several physical attacks during her reign, some more serious than others.

In June, 1840 eighteen year old Edward Oxford discharged a pistol at the queen while she was riding in a carriage with her husband, Prince Albert; neither of his two shots hit anything and he was arrested and charged with treason for attempting to assassinate the monarch.

He later claimed that his weapons were loaded only with powder and no shot. He was tried and found guilty but acquitted on grounds of insanity.

He spent 24 years in the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum in London and in Broadmoor, a secure mental hospital. He was released on condition that he went to live in of Britain's overseas colonies and went to live in Melbourne, Australia where he became a model citizen - he married a widow with two children, worked as a house painter and became a churchwarden and a part-time newspaper columnist. He died in April 1900.

In May, 1842 John Francis aimed a gun at the queen without firing and she followed the same route the following day in an effort to catch him repeating the attempt. He fired at her but was immediately arrested and charged with high treason. He was convicted and sentenced to death, this sentence being later commuted to transportation for life.

In July, 1842, shortly after Francis. sentence had been reduced, John William Bean fired a pistol at the queen, but was loaded only with paper and tobacco. Bean was sentenced to 18 months in jail.

In 1849, William Hamilton described as "an unemployed Irishman" fired a powder-filled pistol at the queen's carriage in London and in 1850 the queen was assaulted, but not injured, by a retired army officer, Robert Pate, who may have been insane.

Both Hamilton and Pate were sentenced to transportation for 7 years.

In February, 1872 Arthur O'Connor, great nephew of an Irish Member of Parliament, waved an unloaded pistol at the queen as she arrived in a carriage at Buckingham Palace. He was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

In March 1882, poet Roderick MacLean fired a shot as the queen was leaving Windsor Railway Station in a rail carriage. He was found not guilty of High Treason by reason of insanity. It is thought he was offended when the queen had rejected one of his poems.

Answer 2

They didn't, Prince Albert died of typhoid.

Answer 3

because he was out of money and could not bribe anyone

Answer 4

hated him