MINISTER’S WIFE THREATENED
BODYGUARD FOR MRS LYTTELTON Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 21. Mrs Lyttelton, wife of the Colonial Secretary, has been given a personal Scotland Yard bodyguard because of a letter threatening her life. Mr Oliver Lyttelton has had a bodyguard for some time. He returned to London last Thursday after three weeks in Kenya, discussing his allraces government plan. ,The police would not confirm that the threat to Mrs Lyttelton was' in a letter purporting to come from the “headquarters of the Mau Mau in London.” Extra • guards were posted at the Prime Minister’s official residence, No. 10 Downing street, last week, after a letter had threatened the life of Ladv Churchill.
Newspapers and members of Parliament received letters last week, all similar, threatening to assassinate the Queen if she visits Gibraltar, as planned, on her way home from the Commonwealth tour.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27306, 24 March 1954, Page 6
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