Crown, Cloak, and Dagger: The British Monarchy and Secret Intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II Aldrich Richard J.
Crown, Cloak, and Dagger: The British Monarchy and Secret Intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II Aldrich Richard J. Surprising revelations about the active role of the monarch in British…
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Crown, Cloak, and Dagger: The British Monarchy and Secret Intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II Aldrich Richard J.
Surprising revelations about the active role of the monarch in British intelligenceThe British Royal Family and the intelligence community are two of the most mysterious and mythologized actors of the British State. Aldrich and Rory Cormac unveil a wealth of archival detail that changes our understanding of the role of the monarch in politics, intelligence, and international relations. Crown, Cloak, and Dagger offers a new history of how the two have been inextricably linked from the reign of Queen Victoria to the present.Richard J.
Even today, the monarch receives "copy No. Successive queens and kings have all played an active role in steering British intelligence, sometimes against the wishes of prime ministers. 1" of every intelligence report.
Attempted assassinations and kidnappings, the abdication crisis, world wars and the Cold War, and the death of