TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aldrich,Richard J.
AU  - Cormac,Rory
TI  - The secret royals: spying and the crown, from Victoria to Diana 
SN  - 9781786499127
U1  - 941.08 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Atlantic Books
KW  - Elizabeth
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Espionage
KW  - Monarchy
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
N1  - 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
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