Who was the last British monarch to be assasinated, (not executed).?

Answer 1

British monarchs who have been assassinated include Richard II, Edward II and Edward V. Richard disappeared and the throne was taken by another. Edward II was brutally murdered with a red-hot poker inserted up his rectum. This was so no wound would appear on the body. Edward V was one of the Princes in the Tower, the sons of Edward IV, murdered allegedly on the orders of Richard III.

Since then, Richard III was killed in battle; Charles I was executed; James II was deposed and Edward VIII abdicated.

Answer 2

I don't know of a British monarch who was assassinated.

The last member of the aristocracy to be assassinated was:

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Mountbatten usually holidayed at his summer home in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, a small seaside village between Bundoran, County Donegal and Sligo Town in the Republic of Ireland on the far north west coast. Bundoran was a popular holiday destination for members of the IRA and they were aware of Mountbatten's movements in Mullaghmore. Despite security advice and warnings from the Garda Síochána, on 27 August 1979, Mountbatten decided to go sailing in his thirty-foot pleasure craft, the Shadow V, which was moored in the small harbour at Mullaghmore. The Provisional IRA had earlier fitted a radio controlled fifty pound bomb which was detonated before the boat reached Donegal Bay. Others killed by the bomb were:

The Dowager Baroness Brabourne, his elder daughter's mother-in-law (aged 83).
The Hon. Nicholas Knatchbull, his elder daughter's fourth son (aged 14).
Paul Maxwell, a 15 year old Protestant youth from County Fermanagh who was working as a crew member

Answer 3

1628 - George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, was assassinated. Buckingham was murdered by a fanatic, after a series of disastrous campaigns against the French in support of the Huguenots. Charles I began his 'personal' rule soon afterwards.

This made him the last British Royal to have been assasinated.

Cheers!

ST