Since Emily Davidson had a return ticket in her pocket it's perhaps unlikely she intended to die. She wasn't a suicide bomber.

However brave her act was, it should be remembered she wasn't the only casualty. It was only by lucky chance that the jockey, Herbert Jones only received a concussion. In fact he is said to have suffered long term flashbacks, and in 1951 he gassed himself.

This thread really is drifting far from home...

................................. The suggestion that some other anthem would be welcomed by nationalists in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland just doesn't make sense. Any anthem that was intended to uphold the Union could never be acceptable to people who reject the Union. It wouldn't make any difference whether it mentioned the Queen or God or was given over to descriptions of the scenery, or stuff about being nice to each other.

If you don't think a nation should continue to exist, that nation's national anthem isn't your national anthem.