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A teenager kept sneaking into Buckingham Palace to “see how royals lived”

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 15, 2026
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Between 1838 and 1841, a teenager named Edward Jones broke into Buckingham Palace not once, not twice, but at least three times — and Victorian England…

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