Messenger Passports issued by His or Her Majesty

Being a Messenger may be a dangerous job Messenger Passports Majesty

Although modern diplomatic relationships between nations are delicate enough at any time, they are doubly so in the time of war, and should, for example, a ciphered letter be decoded by a nation to whom it was not addressed, relations between the countries might be disrupted, and more fagots heaped on the fires of war.

Consequently, whenever the Foreign Office wishes to send valuable and confidential State documents to an embassy or legation in another country, they are sent in “the diplomatic bag” in the personal charge of a Messenger.

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