1906 attempted murder of King Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenie
The bombing on May 31, 1906Morral threw the bomb from the top balcony of this hotel, killing those on the balconies below
The Morral affair was the attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his bride, Queen Victoria Eugenie, on their wedding day, May 31, 1906, and its subsequent effects. The attacker, Mateu Morral, acting on a desire to spur revolution, threw a bomb concealed in a floral bouquet from a Madrid hotel window as the King's procession passed, killing 24 bystanders and soldiers and wounding over 100 others, while leaving the royals unscathed. Morral sought refuge from republican journalist José Nakens but fled in the night to Torrejón de Ardoz, whose villagers reported the interloper. Two days after the attack, militiamen accosted Morral, who killed one before killing himself. Morral was likely involved in a similar attack on the king a year earlier.
The affair became a pretext to stop Francisco Ferrer, an anarchist pedagogue who ran Escuela Moderna, the influential, rationalist, antigovernment, anticlerical, antimilitary, Barcelonean school in whose library Morral worked. An unrequited love interest from the school might also have influenced Morral. Ferrer was charged with masterminding the attack, and though he was acquitted for lack of evidence, he remained a target of the government and church. The journalist Nakens and two friends, however, received prison sentences, held partially responsible for the murder Morral committed after fleeing the city. Following a prominent campaign for royal pardon, the three were released within a year of sentencing. Nakens' role in the affair spotlighted fissures in the Spanish republican movement between gradualism and near-term revolution that would later become an identity crisis.
The Morralaffair was the attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his bride, Queen Victoria Eugenie, on their wedding day, May 31, 1906, and...
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trial, where he was acquitted for lack of proof. Ferrer's role in the Morralaffair remains indeterminate, as of 1985. Ferrer was a militant anarchist,...
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Alfonso would marry Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg on May 31, 1906 (see Morralaffair). Princess Pilar never married. She co-wrote a 1932 biography of Alfonso...
Miguel Moya [es]'s El Liberal. He defended Francisco Ferrer in the Morralaffair and wrote books for Ferrer's Escuela Moderna, including the Castilian...
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a dozen spectators were killed by a bomb thrown by an anarchist, Mateo Morral. According to custom, crowned heads did not attend coronations of other...
convicted for their part in the plot. 31 May 1906 – Catalan anarchist Mateu Morral tries to kill King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Queen Victoria Eugenie immediately...
assassination attempt was made on the King and Queen when anarchist Mateu Morral threw a bomb from a balcony at the royal carriage. Victoria Eugenie's life...
a dozen spectators were killed by a bomb thrown by an anarchist, Mateu Morral. A week after returning to Britain, George and May travelled to Norway for...
assassination attempt on Alfonso and Victoria by Catalan anarchist Mateu Morral. As the wedding procession returned to the palace, he threw a bomb from...
thrown from a fourth floor balcony towards their carriage by anarchist Mateo Morral with the intention of killing them. The homemade artifact did not fully...
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Cortina has pointed out, "in the years that he was at the helm of state affairs, Alfonso XIII was able to observe a notable change in Spanish society:...
January 1, 2025, the Swiss Federal Council appointed Anna Fontcuberta i Morral as the sixth President of EPFL for a 4-year term, succeeding Martin Vetterli...
(1897), there was a failed attempt on the wedding of Alfonso XII (Mateo Morral, 1906) and the assassinations of presidents José Canalejas (1912) and Eduardo...
however, as Angela was killed in a bomb thrown by a Catalan anarchist, Matteo Morral, in Madrid on 31 May 1906. This killing led de Richleau to undertake a secret...
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Gardener, Belgium, Northern Region, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Morral Greenall, Land Service Assistant Grade II, Agricultural Land Service, Ministry...
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