Reginacide

"However, my old enemy, Miss [Edith] Sitwell, is now enthroned. I was not at the coronation, I am not among her subjects. But I have no inclination left to be a reginacide or even a jeering republican."

"[A sketch of Edward Oxford’s attempted assassination of Queen Victoria.]"

"But the wasps make no such migration. The males and the old queens and workers all die when the autumn frosts set in, while the young queens, which have yet to lay their eggs, hie away to find protection in some quiet nook, where they remain until the first bright days of spring. It is then that they sally forth in search of a suitable place to commence their nests, and frequently fall victims to some one who destroys them as depredators of fruit and progenitors of countless enemies of humanity. Should any of my hearers ever be induced to commit such a regicide, or rather reginacide, I beg they will remember that the insect itself and its offspring, if allowed to survive, would remove from both field and garden incalculable numbers of small caterpillars and other larvæ which are so harmful to vegetation."