FBI Documents Reveal Threats to Late Queen Elizabeth II During US Visits

Newly released FBI files being reported by UK media show the US security authorities were concerned about “ever-present” threats to the late Queen Elizabeth II by the militant Irish Republican Army during visits to America. “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,” the confidential file states. In 1979, Queen Elizabeth II’s second cousin, Lord “Dickie” Mountbatten – the last viceroy of India, was killed in an IRA bombing in Ireland. The records on threats to the late British monarch’s life were released following a freedom of information request submitted after Queen Elizabeth II’s death.