Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - Ko McAlpine te mea i runga i te rārangi whāinga o te Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). I roto ia i te kapa o Thatcher i te wā i whakaekehia ai e te IRA
i te Grand Hotel i Brighton i te tau 1984, engari kaore i whara. I te tau 1990 ka whakaekehia e te IRA a West Green House, he whare rangatira i Hartley Wintney, i noho ai ia i etahi wiki i mua, ana i mua ake nei ko Thatcher te manuhiri. I te waenganui o te 1980, mo nga take haumaru me te taake, i whakatau a McAlpine ki te neke ki Monaco me Venice. I mua i tana wehenga kua hokona e ia te nuinga o ana taonga i Sotheby's.