Newly released FBI documents show that authorities foiled a plot to kill the queen in San Francisco or Yosemite National Park, during a time of heightened tensions over the conflict in Northern Ire…
said, citing the FBI documents. The man said he would do this “either by dropping some object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the Royal Yacht Britannia when it sails underneath, or would attempt to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visited Yosemite National Park,” the BBC reported.
Elizabeth II, who died in September, paid California a multi-day visit in 1983, which started in San Diego and included a tour of a Los Angeles film studio and a stop at Reagan’s ranch in Santa Barbara,The California trip came during a time of heightened tensions amid the 30-year sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.
The threat to kill the queen in San Francisco came four years after her second cousin, Lord Mountbatten, was killed in an IRA bombing off the coast of County Sligo in Ireland. The pub where the San Francisco police officer encountered the queen’s would-be assassin was called the Dovre Club, which the FBI described as a gathering place for sympathizers of the IRA, the New York Times said.
Seated with then-Mayor Diane Feinstein, the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh enjoyed a performance by the cast of “Beach Blanket Babylon” and listened to Tony Bennett sing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” The duke could be seen singing along to Bennett’s classic ode.
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