Le Comte Philippe Bonaparte was the Franco-Spanish Holy Alliance's ambassador to the North American Union in the 1990s, until 1995. Bonaparte helped finance the Sons of Liberty's conspiracy to steal The Two Georges and assassinate King-Emperor Charles III of Britain. While he enjoyed the prospect of humiliating the British Empire, Bonaparte was not as favourable to the idea of regicide. He did provide subtle hints about the plot to Thomas Bushell of the Royal American Mounted Police, the investigator in charge of recovering the painting, but felt that his duty to his country mandated that he help see the plot to the end.