Elizabeth II, as the longest-reigning king of Britain and the world, has experienced various ups and downs and glory in her life. But the assassination in 1981 is definitely a memory that she remembers in her life.
Elizabeth II was born in 1926 and became Queen of England in 1952, when she was only 26 years old. But surprisingly, the British public is particularly supportive of the young queen.
In fact, even Churchill did not expect that when George VI entrusted him with the queen, he was very stressed in his heart, after all, the status of the British dynasty was shaky during that period.
But what people did not expect was that after the queen took the throne, she quickly opened the situation, and she also became a qualified and responsible monarch in the eyes of the people.
Because of this, the queen has reigned for more than 70 years and has always been loved by the public, whether it is her birthday or the anniversary of her accession to the throne, almost always receives spontaneous blessings and flowers from the people.
However, this operation does not include all Britons, such as a young man named Marcus Sargent. He actually did a bold thing for his strange idea.
In 1981, Elizabeth II's 55th birthday, Britain held a grand military parade for her. In fact, this kind of thing is not new to the queen, after all, there is such a routine military parade every year.
So, the queen sat on her favorite horse and walked slowly from the front of the queue. At this moment, gunshots suddenly erupted in the crowd.
"Oooo The horses seemed to be stimulated and began to panic.
But no one expected that the queen would not be alarmed, not only firmly holding the reins of the horse in her hand, but also quickly adjusting the mood of her horse and quieting it down.
The police in charge of security woke up like a dream, they immediately searched for the source of the gunshots, and in the crowd, they caught a young man who looked very young.
The crowd had not yet settled down, and they looked at the queen with concern, and after being shot 6 times in the body, they were not hurt at all, only a little frightened.
The queen is really powerful, and she likes to ride horses since she was a child, which has benefited her a lot. In this case, any person can fall off the horse because it is frightened.
It can also be seen from this that it is very important for a person to have a skill. Even a lifelong hobby can be life-saving at a critical moment.
The young man was taken back to the police station and after interrogation it was learned that his name was Marcus Sargent and he was only 17 years old at the time. The police are very strange, why did a 17-year-old shoot at the queen?
Unexpectedly, Sargent's answer made people cry and laugh: "No one is behind my back to assassinate the queen, I just want to be famous, I want to be the first to shoot the queen, this is a supreme honor, I don't want to be snatched by others, because it can only belong to me." ”
The answer was bizarre, but the police didn't want to take it as a joke, and they began to look at Sargent's gun, where it came from, and why the queen was not injured after 6 shots.
Sargent told police he didn't have to buy the gun because his father had it, and he just stole it quietly. For this matter, he has also planned for a long time and put a lot of thought into it.
So why was the queen shot 6 times without being injured? The reason is that the police cannot understand Sargent's behavior. After stealing his father's gun, he didn't steal the bullets, so he went outside to buy them himself.
The result frustrated Sargent: he couldn't buy bullets, and ended up buying two boxes of loud but non-lethal empty cartridges in the store.
That kind of empty shell is similar to the firecracker, but the lethality is far less than the firecracker, because there is no explosive in it. Under such circumstances, the queen will naturally not be harmed.
Looking at the young Sargent, the police at one point felt that he had a problem in his head, and out of responsibility for the case, they specially sent him to the hospital for a mental illness examination.
Of course, everything was fine, and Sargent had no problems with his mind. But why would such a normal young man want to become famous by assassinating the queen? The police are also puzzled.
It's just that the queen was not injured, and besides, Sargent's fight was only an empty package, which was not an assassination at all. What's more, he was only 17 years old at the time, and he was obviously young and impulsive.
Therefore, Sargent was not convicted of assassinating the Queen after his interrogation, and the Queen could not abuse her power because of her special status.
In the end, Sargent was sentenced to 3 years in prison, only for disturbing the peace and frightening the queen for such a trivial crime.
In fact, Elizabeth II's reign of more than 70 years was not easy, and she was assassinated many times, such as in New Zealand, as well as in her own special list.
But the sky does not kill Elizabeth II, and every time, she can save the day. The so-called great difficulty does not die, there will be a blessing, the queen can finally stay on the throne for more than seventy years, I am afraid it is not without reason, right?