The Man in the Brown Suit
The Man in the Brown Suit On July 16, 1936 a man in a brown suit stepped from the crowd on London's Constitution Hill and pointed a loaded revolver at King Edward VIII. But MI5 and the Metropolitan…
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The Man in the Brown Suit
On July 16, 1936 a man in a brown suit stepped from the crowd on London's Constitution Hill and pointed a loaded revolver at King Edward VIII. But MI5 and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch, tasked with royal protection, already knew all about this threat to the king's life. The monarch was moments from death.
He was also an MI5 informant, providing valuable intelligence on Italian and possibly German espionage in Britain. The gunman, George McMahon, was a petty criminal with a history of involvement with the police in Glasgow and London. McMahon had told his MI5 handler he was party to the conspiracy and had shown him the gun he always carried.
The information was passed to MI5's chief, Sir Vernon Kell, but nothing was done. Was the failure to act simply blundering on the part of the security services, or was something far more sinister involved? By the end of the year Edward had
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