A Royal Tragedy; Being the Story of the Assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga of Servia (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... APPENDIX THE PRINCIPAL CAUSES WHICH BROUGHT ABOUT THE TRAGIC END OF KING ALEXANDER AND QUEEN DRAGA. Wr1tten By A Reg1c1de. As I wished that A Royal Tragedy should be a fair statement of facts, a perfectly true and impartial history, I suggested to the chiefs of the regicides to let me have their own statement of causes and circumstances which led them to form the conspiracy for the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga. I offered them to publish their statement in the Appendix to my history of the great Tragedy. They declined to do" so, or rather, they refrained acting on my suggestion and offer. But in the summer of 1905, when the desire of the Servian people to see Great Britain renewing diplomatic relations with Servia was intense, one of the regicides prepared something like a Memorandum of Justification of their action. It was specially prepared for the English Press, although it was written in French. It was sent to London, but until now it has nowhere been published. I leave out the introduction, which recapitulates the events of King Milan's reign, and also the last part, which simply pleads for the renewal of diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Servia, and I reproduce in what follows that part of the Memorandum which concerns King Alexander and the Conspiracy. I retain the title which the writer gave to his Memorandum: "Principales causes qui amenirent la fin tragique du Roi Alexandre et de la Reine Draga." Those who know the real facts of the Servian history during the last ten years will, on reading the following statement, necessarily come to the conclusion that the regicides' case must be exceedingly weak when they had need to falsify history and misrepresent the facts. ..". Acting on the advice of his father, King Alexand...