2-716-839 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A bomb explodes on the day of the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Madrid, 31 May 1906, (1910). 'The most remarkable Press picture ever obtained - The actual exploding of the bomb thrown at the King and Queen of Spain'. Librarian Mateu Morral threw a bomb hidden in a flower bouquet from his hotel window as the royal procession passed. Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenie were unhurt in the assassination attempt, but 24 bystanders and soldiers were killed and over 100 others were injured. When Morral was discovered two days later he shot a police officer and killed himself. The attempted regicide became known as The Morral Affair. From "The Strand Magazine, an illustrated monthly", Volume XL - July to December 1910. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1910]