The regime of Mussolini attempted to assassinate the then King of England in the summer of 1936 Edward VIII, what then abdicate to the throne a few months later for marry the American Wallis Simpson. These are the explosive revelations contained in a forthcoming book written by the British historian Alexander Larman, who had access to the hitherto unpublished memorial left by the attacker, George McMahon, who claimed to have been recruited by the Italian embassy in London. a page of history still shrouded in mystery. The facts ascertained date back to 84 years ago, when McMahon aimed a gun at Edward VIII, who was parading in a carriage in front of Buckingham Palace: but at the last moment a woman grabbed him by the arm and a policeman hit him with a fist, making him finish the revolver across the street, against one of the king’s horses.
The attacker recruited from Italy by Mussolini
Arrested and tried, McMahon claimed to have been paid by a foreign power and to have fact failing the attack on purpose: but British judges deemed him a mythomaniac and sentenced him to just 12 months in prison for illegal possession of weapons. Now the historian Larman has discovered the McMahon memorial in the archives of Balliol College, Oxford: Guardian that the attacker confessed to having been recruited from Mussolini’s Italy and that he had tried in vain to warn the British secret services. McMahon’s story – explains the historian – corroborates the documents so far secreted by MI5 (British intelligence), who reveal that he was also an informant of the British services who passed them news about the activities of the Italian embassy.
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Sigrist House, love nest of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson
The role of the secret services
McMahon had informed London of the plan to assassinate Edward VIII, but had not been believed. When the attack actually took place, the authorities decided to cover up everything to avoid embarrassments. The historian admits that the memorial seems at times to be the work of a madman, but on the other hand it has been ascertained that McMahon met regularly with the English secret agents. He was a small criminal and arms smuggler in Abyssinia who had been noticed by the Italians, who offered to pay him as their informant: but in the memorial he claims to have actually been a double agent, which acted on the orders of the British services. What remains to be understood why Mussolini wanted to kill Edoardo VIIIAfter all, the then King of England had pro-Nazi sympathies, fueled above all by the contacts of Wallis Simpson. And his abdication led to the throne George VI, Elizabeth’s father, which firmly guides Britain in the war against Germany and Italy. Larman even speculates that the British services had facilitated the plans of the attack, to get rid of an uncomfortable ruler in this way: but this page of the thriller still to be written.
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