article_snippet.sent: A top-secret security operation was launched to protect Prince Charles from a feared terror attack by Welsh nationalists at his investiture ceremony, newly released official papers reveal.
article_snippet.sent: The eyes of the nation were on the heir to the throne for the historic event on July 1, 1969, but behind the scenes, Wilson was convinced terrorists campaigning for Welsh independence would target Charles –
article_snippet.sent: then 20 – at his investiture ceremony.
article_snippet.sent: the Queen ' invests the Prince at Caernarfon Castle in 1969 after secret police were sent to Wales in fear of an attack on the monarchy .
article_snippet.sent: In April that year, Wilson also considered cancelling plans for the Prince, who was then a Cambridge undergraduate, to spend a term at the University of Aberystwyth prior to the ceremony after being alarmed by the fact extremists had exploded a bomb at Cardiff police HQ that month.
article_snippet.sent: On the evening before the investiture, two members of MAC, Alwyn Jones and George Taylor, were killed when a bomb two members of MAC, Alwyn Jones and George Taylor had been placing near government offices exploded prematurely.