The FBI have revealed the existence of a possible IRA plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to the United States in 1983.Newly-released FBI records show that agents warned of an ever-present threat to the late monarch during 11 visits to the US across her seven-decade reign.The files, which appear in the FBI's Vault containing information of high public interest, show they received intelligence that Queen Elizabeth might be targeted by an Irish Republican Army sympathiser, who wanted to avenge the death of his daughter in Northern Ireland, on her 1983 trip.
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