[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Assasinations and attitudes towards them

[Heidi Tandy]

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn" <kcawte at n...> wrote:
>>
>>  While this can never compare
>>  to the number of Kings/Queens/PM's that
>>  may have been killed in the UK's
>>  history, we have a short history and a
>>  great many attempts.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Actually I'm not entirely sure that's true. There really haven't
> been all
>>  that many Kings die unnatural deaths (and no Queens) and only one
> Prime
>>  Minister has ever been assasinated. Heck I'm a medieval historian
> (and that
>>  s the period that is probably most bloody) and I can still count on
> one hand
>>  the number of monarchs that I can remember who have been killed.

It all depends on who you deem a monarch, and that's setting aside the 
executions of two of Henry VIII's wives. Jane Grey, who was queen for 
nine days, was executed under Mary's orders, and Mary Queen of Scots was 
also killed, although more per Elizabeth I's orders.

And, of course, Diana was certainly killed, although whether it was an 
accident or, as conspiracy theorists would have you believe, as a result 
of a plotted murder is fodder for said theorists.