Royal Family Home Scandals: Fires, Break-Ins and Security Breaches

Royal family There is always world -class security available, but they have still suffered scary breaks and uncontrolled fires over the years.

One notorious incident happened in 1982 when an intruder passed the Buckingham Castle barn wire fences and managed to reach the end of the late Queen Elizabeth IIThe bedroom was arrested before him.

Indeed, the intruder cannot be blamed for British legislation, so he agreed to treat psychiatric treatment to avoid accusing a bottle of wine from the palace.

Recently, three separate attempts to break down in Windsor Castle, including a case on Christmas Day 2021, where a man who was armed with a cross -struggle attempted to murder Queen Elizabeth II.

Continue to scroll backwards for some scary events that occurred at Royal Residences:

Windsor Castle

The Police of Thames Valley confirmed that the intruder was arrested in an attempt to break into the mansion of the royal family. Prince William and Kate Middleton Living in the Windsor Castle area in Adelaide Cottage with her children’s Prince George, born 2013, Princess Charlotte, born 2015 and Prince Louis, born in 2018.

A police spokesman said People“Right after Sunday on Sunday, the man reached limited premises at Windsor Castle. Met cops challenged him quickly and was arrested. He couldn’t get inside the Windsor Castle.”

Metropolitan police confirmed that the suspect was arrested “suspicion of a crime protected area and in class A drug possession” before being released against the warranties.

“Official officials noticed the man immediately after 1pm on Sunday 1 pm on June 1 and arrested him quickly. He was then transferred to the detention of the Thames Valley police,” the statement of the Helsinki metropolitan area added.

Princess Diana Home is targeted at arson

Late Princess Dianabrother Charles Spencer wrote through X In May 2025, he was “stunned” that their childhood – known as Althorp House – was targeted Suspected arson.

“I learned to learn that one of the @althorphousen farmhouse – fortunately, vandals, fortunately, unused – apparently last night. Thank you to @northantfire for doing her best. So sad that anyone thinks about this fun,” he wrote.

Northammtonshire’s fire and rescue spokesman confirmed BBC News The first respondents arrived to look for a decommissioned farmhouse “completely on fire”. Four fire crews were sent to the Blaze Althorp House.

A fire survey was ongoing in June 2025. Police suggested that the fire was deliberately caused, but the exact cause still had to be determined.

The former fire destroyed the industrial unit in Althorp’s house in September 2024. Althorp House hosted the exhibition of Princess Diana’s early life from 1998 to 2013.

Camouflage

In November 2024, Sky News reported that disguised thieves stole two farm vehicles Breaking Windsor Castle While Prince William and his family slept near the Adelaide cottage.

Two masked men had been reported scalable the 6-foot fence illegally accessible to the property and then commanded the truck to burst through the safety gate. The couple fled the scene a moment later when he had stolen a red four-wheel and Isuzu racing truck.

“At around 11:45 pm on Sunday, October 13, we received a burglar from the Crown Estate Land area near A308 in Windsor,” the Thames Valley police said in a statement. “The offenders came to the farm building and made a black Isuzu raft and red four-wheel. They then headed towards the old Windsor/Datchet area.

“No arrests have been done at this stage, and the investigation continues.”

No other updates have been made publicly.

Santa Barbara Security Office

New York Post reported in July 2022 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle There were six safety alarms in their Montecito, California Manor within 16 months. Two intruders were said to take place within 12 days.

First of all, the suspected offender reached the couple’s property on their wedding day on May 17, 2022. Another case concerned the couple’s security team who encountered an alleged offender who agreed to leave the property without any additional action.

Another suspect intruder was on the property in 2020 and told not to return.

Crossbow

Jaswas Singh Chail Recognized his guilt for one attempt to “harm or alert” Queen in the Law of the Feathers, the possession of an offensive weapon, and the killing of the killing threats after the Botched Christmas Day 2021 event to Windsor Castle, Sky News reported.

Prosecutors stated in court that during the year, Chail made a plan to try to murder Queen Elizabeth II in 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in India, where hundreds were killed during a collision between British colonies and independence activists.

Chail allegedly claimed to penetrate Windsor Castle, armed with a cross and a Star wars mask. The prosecutors noticed that the suspect was encouraged to have his plan on AI chatbot, which he kept on his “girlfriend”.

“I’m sorry for what I’ve done and what I do. I try to murder the royal family’s Queen Elizabeth,” he said in a cooler vlog.

Police arrested Chail’s Windsor Castle area before he was able to transport his plot. He was sentenced to nine years arrested.

Windsor Castle came

Raging fire Destroyed 115 rooms – including nine -state rooms – at Windsor Castle on November 20, 1992 in an early morning, when the head of Light lit Queen Victoria within a private chapel.

By the time the fire was detected, it had already moved outside the chapel and had taken over the nearby St George’s Hall. Because firefighters were busy in using 36 pumps to extinguish the flames, the royal staff desperately tried to remove so many works of art and other historical objects from the property before burning them. Their significant efforts were successful, because only the side table of the rose tree and a Sir William Beechey The painting disappeared in Blaze.

The firefighters eventually included the situation after 15 hours. The restoration of Windsor Castle completely within five years was spent a wide efforts by 1997.

Bedroom intrigue

Michael Fagan broke into the Buckingham Palace twice in July 1982, including Access to the bedroom of Queen Elizabeth II in another company. Fagan claimed that it had its barbed wire fences on the walls of the Buckingham Palace and then scaled the sewer pipeline before he entered the royal family’s living space.

The queen woke up to find Fagan in her bed in her bed, so she attached her to a long conversation to keep her occupied. As his company warns of the palace switch remained unanswered, he finally used an alarm clock in his bed.

Fagan was arrested, but he was not really accused in the Queen’s bedroom for British Britain at the time. (Only the Buckingham Palace became a site named in 2005, ”there was a crime there.)

The intruder was charged with the vineyard of the property, but the palace eventually stopped all the changes when he agreed to carry out psychiatric treatment.

Netflix’s hit series Crown Dramatize the trial in the four episodes of the season, “Fagan”, where Slow Horses star Tom Brooke played an intruder and Olivia Colman photographed Queen Elizabeth II.

Tobacco burns

Former Buckingham Palace Kitchen Personnel Agnes Cooke revealed in his book Yes, Mrs.: The secret life of royal servants that Prince PhilipMother Battenberg’s Princess Alice repeatedly caused damage when cigarette breaks took to a royal family with a woman working in the 1960s (through Marie Claire).

“Well, there was a expectant woman who was very friendly to the Princess of Battenberg’s mother, Battenberg’s Princess Alice, Alice, while Alice lived in Buckingham Palace, and they burned cigarettes together in Alice’s home-so much that they set it regularly,” Cooke confirmed it.

He continued, “And despite the fact that he was a really big-one of the oldest in the UK and the special expectation of the Aristocratic families, the special expectation of a cigarette stuck behind his ears, such as a carbon mine or a carpenter.”

Battenberg’s Princess Alice died in 1969 after spending the last two lives in her life in the palace.