Spain Morral Affair 1906 Old Postcard 10 Minutes after the Explosion, Calle Mayo

Vintage Old Postcard. Spain Spanish. Atentado contra SS. MM. en la Calle Mayor, Madrid, el dia 31 de Mayo de 1906, 31st of May. 10 Minutos despues de la Explosion. Royal Wedding Day. Attack against SS. MM. in the Calle Mayor Street, on May 31, 1906, 10 Minutes after the Explosion. Flags. House Number 88 Hotel.

Written on back: Assassination Attempt on King & Victoria.

Palomeque Arenal 17 Madrid, Propriedad Braulio Lopez - Madrid.

Publisher: Cliche Caterina Lefevre Minardi
Background: The Morral affair was the attempted regicide of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his bride, Victoria Eugenie, on their wedding day, May 31, 1906. The attacker, Mateu Morral, acting on a desire to spur revolution, threw a bomb concealed in a flower bouquet from his hotel window as the King's procession passed, killing 24 bystanders and soldiers, wounding over 100 others.

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Spain Morral Affair 1906 Old Postcard 10 Minutes after the Explosion, Calle Mayo

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