Queen Victoria's Stalker: The Strange Case of the Boy Jones

Following her coronation in 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria was a very frightened young woman. She was being relentlessly pursued by a strange teenager, Edward “the Boy” Jones, who had an uncanny ability to sneak into Buckingham Palace without being detected. Once, he entered her bedroom and stole her underwear, and twice he sat on the throne.

“If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been,” the Queen wrote...