Queen directly intervened amid IRA kidnapping fears for her cousin 'Clearly worried'
- 2 years ago
Her Majesty was pivotal in preventing one of her beloved first cousins - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent - from being kidnapped during his deployment as an Army officer with the Royal Scots Greys in Northern Ireland, unearthed correspondence shows. The Duke had been sent to Northern Ireland with his unit in 1971. However, former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Lord O'Neill had received a warning the IRA was planning to kidnap the Duke upon his arrival in Belfast. This alarming message was passed on by the peer to the Queen through her private secretary. The monarch then decided to inform the Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath, during a private audience who, in turn, relayed the warning to his min ...
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