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'Outstanding... This is the royals as we have never seen them before' Kate Vigurs, author of Mission France For the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess Diana. In an enthralling narrative, Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac show how the British secret services grew out of persistent attempts to assassinate Victoria and then operated on a private and informal basis, drawing on close personal relationships between senior spies, the aristocracy, and the monarchy. This reached its zenith after the murder of the Romanovs and the Russian revolution when, fearing a similar revolt in Britain, King George V considered using private networks to provide intelligence on the loyalty of the armed forces - and of the broader population. In 1936, the dramatic abdication of Edward VIII formed a turning point in this relationship. What originally started as family feuding over a romantic liaison with the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, escalated into a national security crisis. Fearing the couple's Nazi sympathies as well as domestic instability, British

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Author

Richard James Aldrich; Rory Cormac

Publisher

Atlantic Books, Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786499127

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, European History

Rating

4.4 / 5 (135 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14