Newly declassified FBI files reveal the intelligence agency was worried about Queen Elizabeth II being assassinated while visiting the United States.
The FBI has released a trove of previously classified documents covering decades of Queen Elizabeth II’s visits to the United States, including fears of assassination by pro-Irish sympathisers.Over 100 pages of FBI records about the late Monarch were publicly released on Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act by media outlets after her death in September 2022.
According to the file, a city police officer who regularly drank at an Irish pub warned federal agents about a threat against the Monarch by an IRA sympathiser who was bent on revenge for the death of his daughter. The call came about a month before then-President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan hosted the 57-year-old Queen and Prince Philip in California.
The threats were made ahead of the Queen's visit to California in 1983. Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images. The newly released memos reveal the pervasive sense of danger surrounding the British Monarchy during the height of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland and the rise of paramilitary organisations like the IRA.
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