Charles Beem “revisited” this event in the chapter “What Power Have I Left?” in The Lioness Roared. A satirical cartoon about this event by John Doyle shows men rowing up to a sign saying “spare us for the sake of our women.” A politician who resigned due to this event later formed a second government, which reintroduced an income tax and banned women from working underground in the Mines and Collieries Act. During this event, a youthful ruler wrote “keep yourself in readiness for you may soon be wanted” in a letter to William Lamb. This event, which was magnified by a scandal about Flora Hastings’s rumored pregnancy, (10[1])was (10[1])initially precipitated (10[1])by (10[1])Lord (10[1])Melbourne’s resignation (10[2]-5[1])as prime minister. In this event, Robert Peel (10[1])resigned (-5[2])when the reigning queen denied his request to replace (10[1])six (10[1])of her Whig (10[2])ladies-in-waiting. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[2])name this 1839 political “crisis” early in Queen Victoria’s reign. (10[5]0[1]) ■END■