The death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II came in the same month that occurred 40 years ago, the strangest incident in the history of the British royal palace, when the Queen woke up in the morning in her bedroom at Buckingham Palace and found a strange man in her bed.
The incident dates back to the morning of September 24, 1982, and at the time was one of the most prominent security violations in British royal history.
The “hero” of the story is Michael Fagan, an unemployed 34-year-old painter and decorator.
According to the newspaper “The New York TimesFagan went to Buckingham Palace following drinking excessively, and was able to enter the palace following climbing the walls and entering through an open window.
Citing a Scotland Yard report on the incident, the newspaper said Fagan first entered a room on the grounds of the mansion that day.
Fagan was then unable to sneak into the rest of the palace, so he decided to get out of the same window and used a press drain to make his way to the roof, where he finally reached the Queen’s bedroom at regarding seven in the morning.
About that night, Fagan said in a previous interview with the “Town and Country” website, “Some say I hid her, but that is not true… I was very shocked to see the Queen sleeping in her bed.”
“After she saw me, she used a phone that was placed near the bed to call security, but when no one came, she got up from the bed, passed me, and left,” he adds.
During the 1982 court hearing, one of the Queen’s guards said Fagan insisted on speaking with Her Majesty to complain regarding his problem, according to a report from the Guardian newspaper at the time.
The guards were then able to arrest the young man who described the palace’s security protocols as “weak”, and admitted that he had managed to infiltrate the royal palace on two occasions.
In addition to this incident, Fagan said that a month earlier he had managed to enter the palace and claimed that no one had arrested him and that he might penetrate the security system because it was too weak.
Fagan was acquitted of trespassing in the 1982 incident, and a jury also found him not guilty of burglary in connection with the first break-in.
