IRA 'plotted to kill Princess Margaret with hitman nicknamed The Jackal

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IRA 'plotted to kill Princess Margaret' | Daily Mail Online

The IRA plotted to murder Princes Margaret for calling the Irish 'pigs' a new biography has revealed.

The Queen's sister became a target for the terrorist group after she made the derogatory comment during an official visit to the US in October 1979.

Princess Margaret, who died in 2002 at the age of 71, was at a reception in Chicago discussing the recent IRA assassination of her cousin Lord Mountbatten with the city's mayor Jane Byrne.

It was reported in the press at the time that during a conversation between the pair Margaret said: 'The Irish, they're pigs.'