Queen Elizabeth II assassination plot exposed in FBI files as man threatened to kill monarch
FBI files have revealed that there was an assassination plot against Queen Elizabeth II in the US.
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FBI files have revealed that there was an assassination plot against Queen Elizabeth II in the US.
A document says a man claimed he would attempt to harm the monarch while she was visiting California in 1983.
The man had been affected by the Troubles in Northern Ireland and claimed he was plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, an FBI document reveals.
Released on the FBI's online vault, the document outlines what appears to be intelligence provided to federal agents about a threat to the Queen's life in California 40 years ago.
Queen Elizabeth II alongside US President George W Bush in 2004
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The Queen made an official visit to the west coast of America in February and March 1983.
The monarch was accompanied by her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on the visit.
The FBI file states that a phone call was made by "a man who claimed that his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet".
It added: "This man additionally claimed that he was going to attempt to harm Queen Elizabeth and 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."
Another document published by the FBI online, reveals concerns that groups were planning to protest at the monarch's attendance at a baseball game.
The protesters were also targeting a White House event during the Queen's state visit to the US in 1991.
The information came from the Philadelphia Irish paper titled Irish Edition.
The protesters were also targeting a White House event during the Queen's state visit to the US
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The file said: "The article stated anti-British feelings are running high as a result of well publicised injustices inflicted on the Birmingham Six by the corrupt English judicial system and the recent rash of brutal murders of unarmed Irish nationalists in the six counties by loyalist death squads.
"Though the article contained no threats against the president or the Queen, the statements could be viewed as being inflammatory.
"The article stated that an Irish group had reserved a large block of grand stand tickets."