Monday 29 June 2020

Princess May took a quite professional interest in anarchists

In common with every other member of a European Royal House, Princess May took a quite professional interest in anarchists. Nor was this interest an academic exercise: for she lived to know of several royal assassinations.

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Princess May, like [Alexandra] the Princess of Wales, was in favour of lynch-law for active anarchists. Prince George considered 'hanging or shooting ... much too good for ... an Anarchist, they all ought to be exterminate like wasps'. 

J . Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary (1959), 237-8

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