AH: The Night They Tried to Kidnap the Prime Minister
BBC play set in 1964 about an effort by radical students to kidnap Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home (yes, this really happened) and Issue Demands. Sir Alec was alone (his bodyguard was elsewhere and this was in the middle of Nowhere, Scotland) and managed to talk his assailants out of the act. Well, he also used some beer…
Needless to say, this would have made a heck of a Point Of Divergence for an AH story…it became Secret History, because the missing bodyguard begged Douglas-Home to keep it secret, and he did so for many years, and only opened up in private about it long after his retirement. One of the people who heard the story wrote it up in his journal, and THAT didn’t get out till the late 2000′s.