Inheriting in 1837 a throne whose recent incumbents had been for the most part foreign, degenerate and unpopular, the courage of Victoria (and Prince Albert) in the face of these assassination attempts earned admiration at a time of political and social unrest.
In the face of political assassinations, White House trysts, the death of her first son and scandals that would make Monica Lewinsky do a double-take, Young's character has luckily found a partner in Goldwyn's.
Israeli politicians have hinted that Hamas leaders could face a campaign of assassination similar to that which killed several of the group's leaders, including its spiritual leader, Ahmed Yassin, and co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, in 2004.
The arrests followed the abrupt cancellation last month of the visit by the former king, who, according to a Western diplomat, faced the threat of assassination.
Cherney fears he might not get a fair trial or be arrested on "trumped-up charges" orchestrated by Deripaska if he returns to Russia – where, he's also argued, he faces the risk of assassination.
In 2011, two exiles in London were warned by British police that they faced the threat of assassination by a Rwandan government hitman, and last year a refugee who fled his job in Kagame's personal bodyguard was abducted in Uganda and forcibly returned to Rwanda.
And it warned that President Pierre Buyoya, who seized power in a coup in 1996, "faces the real risk of assassination".
It's hard to understand why a group representing millions of seniors, which expresses a viewpoint held by the vast majority of Americans of all ages, would face character assassination in the opinion pages of the Washington Post.
There has been admiration for his courage in venturing outside the occupation headquarters in Baghdad's so-called Green Zone, facing the ever-present risk of assassination.
In the weeks since the March 7 election, the fighters have faced a rash of assassinations, including the slaughter of more than two dozen relatives of Awakening members, which the government said was retribution from Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the insurgent force whose two top leaders, one Egyptian, one Iraqi, were recently killed.
