A Man Breaks into Queen Elizabeth II’s Bedroom
In 1982, an unemployed British man named Michael Fagan climbed up a drainpipe at Buckingham Palace and snuck into Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom, which was unguarded because a police officer left before his replacement arrived. Somehow he managed to walk around the private chambers 15 minutes before anybody noticed. He found an ash tray and smashed it to pieces. Then proceeded to the queen’s bedroom with a large shard of the ash tray. He reportedly planned to slash his wrists in front of the Queen. The Queen was sleeping, and when she woke up and found him there, they reportedly chatted for ten minutes. However, this appeared to be untrue. When he asked for a cigarette, she was able to call for help. Fagan himself has clarified the pair never actually spoke during his visit. But did they have an Fagan replied: “Nah! She went past me and ran out of the room, her little bare feet running across the floor.”
In the official report, it says while waiting for the police to arrive Her Majesty managed to attract the attention of the maid, and together they ushered Fagan into a nearby pantry on the pretext of supplying him with a cigarette. They were joined by a footman before the police arrived. The piece of glass was subsequently found on the Queen’s bed alongside a bloodstain from a cut on Fagan’s hand. Fagan was arrested and charged with burglary at the palace. Trespassing into the Queen’s bedroom was only a civil offense at that time, not criminal (it became criminal in 2007 as part of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005). So Fagan was charged with theft (of some wine) but charges were dropped when he was committed for psychiatric evaluation.