Newspaper magnate Cecil King described as 'nonsense' claims that he discussed a putsch to oust Harold Wilson with Lord Mountbatten - and claimed it was in fact the Labour prime minister who staged a boardroom coup against him
Mr King told Sir Robert that by early 1968 the Mirror, which had strongly supported the post-war Labour government, had publicly “cooled” towards the Wilson government and he had reached the personal conclusion that the pipe-chomping prime minister was not up to the job. Shortly after the paper had made clear its stance, Mr King was summarily removed as chairman of IPC in a boardroom coup in May 1968 for which he said he had been offered no explanation either “then or since”.
A British diplomat raised concerns about the secret extent of Mitterrand’s ill-health, a decade before the ailing statesman’s terminal prognosis was made public Sir Reginald urged London to look beyond six-monthly health reports issued for Mr Mitterand suggesting he was in good health on the basis that he had information from elsewhere that the president may have had cancer even before he assumed office.
The poor health of Mr Mitterrand, who was succeeded by Jacques Chirac, only became known after his death in 1996 when his former private doctor disclosed his medical records and history of treatment.The Sunday Times, who was the Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle, attended by Mr King, Hugh Cudlipp, the then editor of the Mirror, and Sir Solly Zuckerman, the government’s chief scientific adviser.
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