Balloon Raid
The Balloon Raid was a non-violent British Women's Suffrage Movement protest event that took place over the skies of London on Tuesday 16 February 1909, during King Edward VII's royal procession from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster for the official State Opening of Parliament. == Background == The protest sought to follow the royal procession of King Edward and his wife Alexandra of Denmark from their home at Buckingham Palace to the Houses of Parliament in the afternoon of Tuesday 16 February 1909, designed to gain attention and to promote the Women's Suffrage movement in the United Kingdom.