Of that time a man broke into Buckingham Palace and managed to reach the rooms of the Queen Elizabeth much has been said, less known, however, are the death threats received by the sovereign during her long reign, which lasted seventy years.
The most striking case, at least so far, has been disclosed by the FBI, which on the site The Vaulta real online library containing many files, has published a 103-page document concerning the preparations for the trip that the sovereign made with her husband Philip to the United States in 1983.
A month before the visit, a man threatened the Queen, in revenge for the death of her daughter, apparently killed in Northern Ireland. The man in question, whose name is not mentioned, would have intended to hurt the queen during the passage of her yacht, the Britannia, under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, or during a visit to the National Park of Yosemite.
The document reveals the precautions taken, above all the closure of the bridge during the passage of the Britannia, while it says nothing about any measures implemented in Yosemite. Those were difficult times, in which the threats to the Royal House by the Irish certainly did not remain on paper, just think of the murder of Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the queen and mentor of the then young Prince Charles, assassinated in 1979 by the IRA, l Irish Republican Army.
From this and other papers published on The Vault it is clear that security around Elizabeth II has always been at its best during her travels to the United States, whether they were state visits or more private ones, such as the one she made in Kentucky in 1989. In 1991, however, the protests made public, involving some events in which the sovereign was supposed to participate and which in the end she was forced to avoid precisely for safety reasons.
Elizabeth II, however, would never seem to have been in real danger, probably because not even a capillary and effective organization like the IRA could have gone that far, despite having the means and possibilities. After all, the queen was the most protected person on the planet, just think of the measures put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic, when a sort of “bubble”, impassable even for children. Next to the couple, very few and trusted people, in their retreat in Windsor, among the most loved places, until the end.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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