The Princess, The King and The Anarchist

Fiction. Translated from the French by Helen Marx. Edited by Ruth Greenstein. Introduction by Caroline Weber. THE PRINCESS, THE KING AND THE ANARCHIST takes place on May 31, 1906, the wedding day of King Alphonso XIII of Spain to British Princess Maria Eugenia of Battenberg. As the royal procession snakes its way slowly through Madrid, the cheering of the crowd and the decorum and fanfare of the retinue masks the sinister assassination plot awaiting the young couple just before their gilded carriage enters the palace gates.