Tag: 1968

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 10:35 UTC

  Queen 'talked Lord Mountbatten out of 1968 plot to overthrow Labour government

  

  In an advance of a book to be launched this week, “The Mountbattens”, Lives & Loves”, author Andrew Lownie reveals how the Queen, in 1968, talked Lord Mountbatten out of leading a plot to overthrow the Labor government, then headed by Harold Wilson.