Revealed: Full extent of Lord Mountbatten's role in '68 plot against Harold Wilson

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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

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.

 

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That's insane.

A leader derided by Rommel and hardly a coup likely to have been blessed with success ?

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