Secretive records have been released by the National Archives - among them are a denial by one of the high-profile figures accused of a reported plot to overthrow Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1968.
An embittered Mr King suspected that the accusation played a part in his removal from the IPC.Margaret Thatcher was forced to address the reportsAlso revealed is how a revered British composer beloved by the Royal Family secretly sought state help to supply him with illegal quantities of controlled drugs.
Records show his wife, Lady Susana Walton, asked a police inspector in 1982 to help send a year's supply to his home on the island of Ischia, near Naples, in Italy. Diplomat Sir Reginald Hibber filled in Whitehall colleagues in December 1981 with"talk about the President's health which seemed to me to carry a certain amount of conviction".That proved to be correct, as Mr Mitterrand died in 1996 with prostate cancer - something he successfully concealed from the French public throughout his presidency - which ended in 1995 - and until his death.
He repeatedly lobbied Crown Prince Sheikh Sa'ad between 1998 and 1999, even calling in on him during a brief stopover on a flight home from South Africa to press the point.
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