Former employees of the KGB revealed that the former Soviet intelligence service spied on several members of the British Royal Family, according to The Sunday Express.
According to them, Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, was one of the Russians’ targets, telephone conversations of them being listening in by KGB agents. However, several microphones were hidden in the princess’s bedroom during an official visit to Copenhagen in 1964. The listening devices were installed in her lighter, cigarette holder and ashtray, Colonel Vadim Goncharov revealed.
Following conversations categorized by KGB as “most interesting, even scandalous,” the spies managed to find out about the romance between Princess Margaret and Robin Douglas-Hime, but also about relations with Roddy Llewellyn, Colin Tennant and Dominic Ewes.
All details were sent to Moscow via photos, audio cassettes or reports which presented rumors or gossip having at the center members of the Royal Family.
KGB was able to obtain information even about Philip, Prince Consort of Great Britain, through artist Stephen Ward, who, after a 15-year friendship with Queen Elizabeth, committed suicide because of the scandal “Profumo affair”.
Soviet spies have even tried to organize an operation blatantly aimed at compromising the future of the Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Although scheduled to be held at a hotel in Moscow, the plan failed.
So far, the Russian intelligence service has vehemently denied accusations of spying on members of the British royal family for fear that such information could place in a bad light Queen’s historic visit to Moscow.
After the death of Colonel Goncharov, Russian newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” published all this information. In addition, a book about KGB operations organized against the sister of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is to be finished and released in 2013 by analyst Gennady Sokolov. The book will be titled “The Kremlin v The Windsors – Palace Spies Of The Secret War”.
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