Plan to take Queen Elizabeth II’s life in the U.S. revealed

An attempt was made to kill Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 visit to the US, however the FBI foiled the plot. Queen Elizabeth II was in risk of being assassinated during her visit to California since it occurred amid the “Troubles,” a 30-year conflict with Northern Ireland that resulted in the deaths of more than 3,500 people.

When Queen Elizabeth visited the United States forty years ago, there were continual and horrifying threats made against her, and the FBI was informed of this. Four decades later, recently declassified documents have surfaced, exposing their plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II in the United States.

According to FBI documents provided to PEOPLE magazine, a police officer from the San Francisco Police Department was contacted in February 1983 by another officer who frequented the Dovre club, which was rumored to be a Republican bar frequented by PIRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army) supporters.

The report claims that an unnamed client explained to the second policeman that his daughter “had been hit by a rubber bullet in Northern Ireland, causing her death” and that’s why he’d come up with a plot to kill the British monarch.

“This man claimed that he would take Queen Elizabeth II’s life and that he had planned to do so by either dropping some heavy object from the Golden Gate Bridge as she passed under it, or he would attempt to kill her directly when she visited Yosemite National Park.” The documents note that the Secret Service had planned to close the walkways of the Golden Gate Bridge as the ship approached, thanks to advance information from the FBI, ruining the assassin’s plan.