I guess we are all the lunatic fringe

My favourite story about the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote concerns Emily Davison throwing herself under King George V’s horse at the 1913 Derby. Many saw it as the ultimate act of heroism by a courageous feminist, but not King George’s mum Queen Alexandra.

She sent a telegram to the jockey at the time saying how sad she was that he couldn’t finish the race due to “the abominable conduct of a brutal lunatic woman”.

Heartless I know, but I reckon a century on those horse-loving royals would take the same view.

Let’s face it, if you come from a family which doesn’t need to worry about voting because the cap-doffing voters blindly accept they are your subjects, I guess you’d see them all as lunatics.