The secret royals : spying and the crown, from Victoria to Diana / Richard J. Aldrich & Rory Cormac.
By: Aldrich, Richard J. (Richard James) [author.]
.Contributor(s): Cormac, Rory [author.].Publisher: London : Atlantic Books, 2021Description: x, 725 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs (some colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781786499127.Other title: Spying and the crown, from Victoria to Diana.Subject(s): Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022 -- Family | Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History | Espionage -- Great Britain -- History | Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 941.08 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 941.080922 ALD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020345 |
Introduction: 007 -- Elizabeth I and modern espionage -- Popish plots and public paranoia -- I. The rise and fall of royal intelligence -- Queen Victoria : assassins and revolutionaries -- Queen Victoria's secrets : war and the rise of Germany -- Queen Victoria's great game : empire and intrigue -- Queen Victoria's security : Fenians and anarchists -- Edward VII and the modernization of intelligence -- II. Royal relations and intrigues -- King George V and the Great War -- King George V and the Bolsheviks -- Abdication : spying on Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson -- III. Royals and spies at war -- Outbreak of the Second World War -- War in the Americas -- The end of the Second World War -- Raiding missions : fighting for the secret files -- IV. Royal secrets -- Princess Elizabeth : codename 2519 -- Queen Elizabeth II : coronation and Cold War -- Nuclear secrets -- V. Royal diplomacy -- Queen Elizabeth's empire : intrigue and the Middle East -- Discreet diplomacy : the royals in Africa -- Discreet diplomacy : the global Queen -- VI. Protecting the realm and the royals -- Terrorists and lunatics, 1969-1977 -- Terrorists and lunatics, 1979-1984 -- Going public -- Bugs and bugging -- The Diana conspiracy -- Conclusion : the secret Royals -- Ruling the past.