The Prince and the AssassinThe engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest. The British Empire's youngest and most distant outpost found itself at the epicentre of a new crime and empirical fears about the first inter