13 FEBRUARY 1932, Page 17

SACRILEGE BEGINS AT HOME

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,NOw that we have completed the violation- of Tutank- hamen's tomb, and have stolen from it, with great applause, many beautiful objects, 'it seems an appropriate time to advocate the extension of the good work, and to suggest that we should now dig up the bodies of some of our own kings.

The head of Henry VIII; for instance, would provide an attractive exhibit for a local museum. Moreover there would be more excuse for this, for we do not greatly care what becomes of our bodies, whereas we know that the ancient EgYptians regarded with the utmost horror, from religious motives, the desecration of their graves.—I am,