At Brussels Railway Station on 4 April 1900, the 16-year-old Belgian anarchist, Jean-Baptiste Sipido, attemped to shoot Edward, Prince of Wales, the son of Queen Victoria and heir to the UK throne.
Sipido fired two shots at Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra, while the royal couple were sitting in a train, with one of the bullets grazing Prince Edward’s head.
Sipido said he tried to kill Prince Edward because he held him responsible for the many deaths suffered in the Boer War.
Included below are two newspaper stories from April 1900 that report on this amazing incident.
The Evening Post. – Saturday 07 April 1900
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Royal Cornwall Gazette – Thursday 05 April 1900
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http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000180/19000405/063/0005
