While the health of Queen Elizabeth II is in the news in the United Kingdom, we learned on November 18 that her palace in London, Buckingham Palace, was the target of an intrusion. The facts took place on May 10, on the eve of the opening of Parliament. On that day, it is not known if the monarch was still at Windsor Castle, where she spent part of that year.
Numerous security holes
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the mourning of her beloved husband, Prince Philip, and now her state of health, the Queen is no longer in central London very often. Still, a man, Cameron Kalani, 44, is accused of entering the Royal Mews of the Palace. He carried cocaine and a kitchen knife, “without good or legitimate authority”.
According to the Evening Standard, he is due to appear this Friday, November 19 before the Westminster Court of First Instance to answer for acts of trespassing on a protected site. And it’s not the first security breach the royal family has experienced this year. Last April, security guards mistakenly let an unknown woman roam the Windsor grounds. The 44-year-old claimed to be engaged to the Duke of York. A month later, a couple climbed an outside wall in Windsor, near where the Queen walks her corgis and where Prince Andrew lives …
Michael Fagan’s “exploit” in 1982
Intrusions which inevitably recall that of Michael Fagan, in July 1982. This man had succeeded twice in entering Buckingham Palace. The second time he had been to the queen’s bedroom. An episode is devoted to it in season 4 of The Crown, the Netflix series.
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