Dark Side

2: Episode 2 - A Right Royal Botch-up

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It was supposed to be a clean job. Well prepared, years of research, all the fine detail was in place...but one woman was having none of it...

A slight reprieve this week from the absolute macabre, but non the less, unpleasant and important... and it went onto change law protection in the UK....


Sources: 

  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bloody-attempt-kidnap-british-princess-180950202/
  • https://www.tatler.com/article/princess-annes-bodyguard-remembers-1974-kidnap-attempt
  • https://www.tatler.com/article/princess-anne-kidnap-medal
  • https://news.sky.com/story/princess-anne-kidnap-attempt-boxer-who-intervened-sells-medal-to-pay-for-funeral-11949106
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LaseRKg9w0
  • https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/23/princess-anne-kidnap-attempt-archive-1974
  • https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1325810/princess-anne-news-kidnapping-attempt-ian-ball-royal-family-latest-spt
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/top-10-richest-cities-in-the-world-according-to-wealth-x.html
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1500-OvQUoA
  • https://www.pfoa.co.uk/blog/all-british-police-officers-should-carry-guns-say-coventrylive-readers#:~:text=Every%20UK%20police%20force%20has,Police%20Service%20of%20Northern%20Ireland
  • https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/broadmoor-15-most-notorious-patients-17785453
  • https://magazine.trueroyalty.tv/2019/07/29/getting-too-close-the-story-behind-princess-annes-attempted-kidnap/
  • https://lineofsuccession.co.uk/1974-06-11
  • https://www.fixatedthreat.com/perch/resources/attacks-on-the-british-royal-family.pdf

    Voices:

    Narrator: SuZe
    Ian Ball: TH

    Music:
    Possession by Purple Planet

    All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    All media outtakes have been sourced via open media and are readily available via an internet search.



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