Officers responded to a security breach around 8:30 a.m., according to the Thames Valley Police. If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the .uk entertainment team by emailing us calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we’d love to hear from you. An armed intruder was arrested on the grounds of Windsor Castle on Saturday as Queen Elizabeth and members of the royal family, including Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, celebrated Christmas at the castle. The Crown season 14 launches Sunday November 15 on Netflix. Sources claim the man, 19, had a crossbow and got in using a rope ladder. During his chat with The Telegraph, Fagan confirmed that he was not contacted about the episode or consulted in any way.Īs a result, he said that while he agreed with his on-screen persona being anti-Thatcher, the team used ‘artistic licence’ in the portrayal of the event. AN armed intruder was arrested at Windsor Castle yesterday as the Queen celebrated Christmas there. Was Fagan involved in the making of The Crown season 4? Perhaps Netflix missed a trick with the MP’s depiction.He is now living in Islington, North London, with his partner of 17 years, and is recovery from both a heart attack, and coronavirus. The arrested teen used a rope ladder to scale a metal fence, SCMP reported. Queen Elizabeth spends Christmas with her son, Prince Charles, his wife, Camilla, and other close family members at Windsor Castle, where she has spent most of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the drama, the fictional catalyst for the Palace break-in is a meeting with his unsympathetic MP, a Tory who sarcastically suggests that Mr Fagan take his concerns about the state of the country to the Queen. Intruder threatens to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. “I’ve met children downstairs who say, ‘We were learning about you in our lessons.’ Kids get taught about me at school, I swear,” he said. He has always been well-known character in his local area, he said, and enjoys his small place in royal history. ![]() The Crown will bring him renewed attention but he plans to take it in his stride. Now he lives with his partner of 17 years, Rhian, and has three great-grandchildren. In 1997, he was jailed for four years for heroin offences. He was, however, sent to a psychiatric hospital for three months before returning home. He was latterly charged with stealing a bottle of wine during that first intrusion, but was acquitted. Incredibly, it was the second time he had broken into the Palace - on the first, he was disturbed by a maid and fled. Mr Fagan was arrested but not charged with trespass, as it was then a civil offence. In reality, he said, that was not the case and Morgan had “used a lot of artistic licence” he still has no explanation for why he broke in, although he was frustrated by joblessness and the break-up of his marriage.īut he conceded that he did share the anti-Thatcher sentiment. on the morning of July 9, 1982, Fagan scaled his way into royal history as, after a night of drinking, he climbed over the fence of Buckingham Palace and made his way up a drainpipe and onto the roof. The Netflix drama suggests that Mr Fagan launched a diatribe about Baroness Thatcher, telling the Queen that the Prime Minister had ruined the country. According to the police, shortly before 7 a.m. And she’s got a little thing where she does her teas and coffees.” Until the Queen sat up and spoke, Mr Fagan had not realised it was her bedroom as he did not think it grand enough to belong to a monarch. One of them was fumbling around for his notebook.” ![]() Then the policemen came and they were all over the place - they hadn’t arrested anyone for years, they were on a retirement posting, on guard duty. The footman, Paul Whybrew, took Mr Fagan down the corridor. Then a footman comes in and goes, ‘You look like you need a drink, mate.’” In reality, after a short moment in which Mr Fagan sat on the bed, she told him, “I’ll be back in a minute,” and darted out of the room. The Queen did not, as the show cheekily suggests, address Mr Fagan with her favoured line in small talk: “Have you come far?” Well, I sound a bit common so maybe not like that. “I pulled back the curtain and she said, ‘What are you doing here?’” Her tone, he said, was not as clipped as he had expected. In fact, despite reports at the time that Mr Fagan engaged the monarch in a 10-minute chat, very few words were actually exchanged. The screen conversation between Mr Fagan (played by Tom Brooke) and the Queen (Olivia Colman) is a work of fiction. The outrageous episode also feature in season 4 of The Crown here, Charlotte Hodgman, editor of BBC History Revealed, explains. Peter Morgan, the Netflix writer, did not approach him to contribute to the programme. On 9 July 1982, 31-year-old painter and decorator Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and made his way to the Queen’s bedroom, in what was one of the biggest royal security breaches of the 20th century.
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