Witnesses said flames reached 20 feet into the air as the blaze spread through the carriage, leaving it gutted and a second car badly damaged.
Romeo, my Alfa Romeo, I grieve as I do drive thee 'round the city block, perchance to see another carriage leave that I may seize the place to park and lock thee.
As the carriage left New Palace Yard, a single gun fired in St James's Park; a muffled boom echoed through the hushed streets and along Whitehall all was still but for the measured, deliberate crunch of boots against the road, a steely jingle of harness, and the sad music of the march.
Although it was the only rational thing to do — he said later that he wept when the last Bourbon king's carriage left Versailles, but what was finished was finished — his relatives in the aristocracy despised him for it, and, feeling miserable and confused, he looked for some way out of Paris.
But surgeons had to remove her legs above the knee after she was trapped in the wreckage of the tube carriage, leaving her with injuries which require her to use 280% more energy than a normal person to take a single step.
On 2 March 1882, Roderick Maclean, a disgruntled poet apparently offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems, shot at the Queen as her carriage left Windsor railway station.
The police said they believed the blaze was set in baby carriages left in the ground-floor corridor.
On Britain's rammed-out railways, that means an eight- or 10-car set cut to four carriages, leaving passengers just a few stops up the line unable to get on board.
A photograph handed to reporters by the fire brigade showed just four carriages left standing upright on the rails.
The carriage crash leaves him with a sprained ankle.
