Lord Mountbatten Harold Wilson
Lord mountbatten prince charles great uncle and mentor came close to leading a group of industrialists generals and tycoons in the coup to replace then prime minister harold wilson.
Lord mountbatten harold wilson. November 29 2019 at 948 am. Walking on water recounts a 1968 plot by his colleague the newspaper magnate cecil king to bring down harold wilson and install an unelected government. Although its claim that mountbatten was motivated by pique at being sacked as chief of the defence staff is incorrect mountbatten retired naturally in 1965 at the age of 65 there were certainly plans for such a coup.
Netflix in peter wrights 1987 book spycatcher he claims that lord mountbatten met with king in 1968 to discuss displacing wilson as prime. According to the show shortly after mountbattens forced retirement he was approached by a group plotting to unseat prime minister harold wilson. The 1968 plot was designed to replace prime minister harold wilson from the labour party with a coalition government to bring the country together during what mountbatten and the conspirators.
The crown season three depicted mountbatten considering leading a coup detat against harold wilsons government in the late 1960s a move that would have seen an unelected government take. Lord mountbatten played by charles dance photo. In the 2006 bbc documentary the plot against harold wilson it is claimed that there had been a second plot involving mountbatten to undermine wilson during his second term in office between 1974.