Believe it or not, this was actually Fagan's second time breaking into the palace. The first time Fagan climbed a drainpipe, entering through an unlocked window in the roof. Security was called but decided not to act believing that the alarm systems which were tripped to be faulty. This part is possibly my favourite. Fagan spent the next half an hour eating cheddar cheese and crackers before entering the post room and drinking half a bottle of white wine. He then decided he was tired and left, probably out the same he had come in. I just love that he wandered around eating cheese. Kind of like saying, "Yep, I'm in Buckingham Palace bitches!"
The second time, his presence was only detected by the Queen when he disturbed a curtain. While that is a little hard to believe the best is yet to come. The only way that Fagan could enter the bedroom without being undetected at that time was because the armed guard who usually stands outside the royal bed chambers was out walking the Queen's dogs.
Even if that information is wrong and Fagan just happened to be incredibly sneaky, I think that the notion of the Queen's pet dogs allowing a somewhat mental ill man to enter the palace is just a little bit funny, in a black humour sort of way.
Fagan was not charged with trespassing into the Queen's bedroom because at the time it wasn't a criminal offence, rather a civil wrong. Instead, he was charged with theft for the cheese and wine, which were then dropped on account of a psychiatric evaluation that placed him in a mental hospital for six months. The law was changed to respond to Fagan's break-in.
I don't think that anyone would ever try to do something like what Fagan did again, just because the security would have been doubled, no, maybe tripled in response.
So, even though I think what Michael Fagan did was an amazing achievement, to get past all those guards and to then walk around like he owned the place, I do not in anyway condone what he did. I think that Queen Elizabeth is a very cool person, to be one of the last remaining monarchs who actually has a little bit of admiration for her people and country, and who in return is adored by those people.
Gosh, look at me getting all sentimental!
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