![]() ![]() It came amid growing social upheaval, industrial unrest and economic decline, with demonstrations in central London against the Vietnam war, student occupations and increased trade union militancy leading to a belief among some in the establishment that society was disintegrating. ![]() The 1968 plot was designed to replace Prime Minister Harold Wilson with a coalition government to bring the country together, during what Mountbatten and the conspirators regarded as a time of national crisis.Īccording to a new biography of Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s great uncle and mentor, it took the intervention of the Queen to persuade him to cut his ties with the plotters rather than acting against Wilson, his Cabinet and Parliament.ĭrawing on contemporary diaries of the period, historian Andrew Lownie reveals for the first time the full extent of Mountbatten’s involvement in the plot. Lord Mountbatten came dangerously close to leading a cabal of industrialists, generals and tycoons plotting a coup against an elected Labour government, a new book reveals. ![]()
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