Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on September 8, 2022, has made numerous official visits to the United States. But in the 1980s and 1990s, dark plans were aimed at killing the British monarch. These threats were revealed by the recent publication of FBI archives.
Among these documents, published on the FBI website, a note concerns in particular the trip made by Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip to the west coast of the United States in 1983. According to information obtained by the San Francisco police via a source close to Irish nationalist circles, a man who claimed that "his daughter was killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet", has issued the project "to harm Queen Elizabeth".
An object thrown from the Golden Gate
He would do this "either by dropping an object from the Golden Gate Bridge onto the royal yacht Britannia when it passed underneath, or by attempting to kill the Queen during her visit to Yosemite National Park." Four years earlier, in 1979, the paramilitary group Irish Republican Army killed Lord Louis Mountbatten, Elizabeth II's cousin, in a bomb attack during the Troubles that saw republicans and unionists in Northern Ireland.
Another note, relating to a state visit by the Queen in 1991, refers to threats by Irish groups to disrupt events the monarch was due to attend, such as a baseball game and a reception at the White House.
Several assassination attempts
Another document from 1989 states that although no specific threat has been made against the Queen, "the possibility of threats from the Irish Republican Army (IRA) against the British monarchy is still present." The queen, who died last September at the age of 96, was the subject of several assassination attempts.
In 1970, suspected IRA sympathizers attempted to derail its train west of Sydney, Australia, and in 1981, the IRA planned a bomb attack during a visit to northern Scotland.
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