The FBI has disclosed a potential threat to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 trip to the United States.
that one document appears to detail a tip gathered around a month before that visit from San Francisco police regarding a phone call from"a man who claimed that his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet."
Queen Elizabeth ll makes a speech as President Ronald Reagan looks on during a banquet on March 3, 1983, in San Francisco.The names of the San Francisco police officer who received the phone call and the caller were redacted in the documents, which did not indicate whether precautions were taken at Yosemite or whether any arrests were made. A March 7, 1983, memo indicated the queen completed the U.S. visit"without incident" and that"no further investigation is warranted.
In the same year, a mentally disturbed teenager fired a single shot toward the queen's car during a visit to New Zealand. Christopher Lewis fired the shot as she toured the South Island city of Dunedin. The queen quickly calmed her startled horse and carried on while the teenager told soldiers who disarmed him he had"wanted to be famous."
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