![]() ![]() Minutes later, he pulled back the curtains and found the queen sleeping there solo. “He claimed that he had not entered the palace with this intention but that it formed in his mind for the first time when he saw the ashtray.” carrying one piece of the broken ashtray, with which he has said that he intended to slash his wrists in the presence of Her Majesty,” the Times said. “Fagan entered Her Majesty's bedroom at about 7:15 a.m. He reportedly jumped over railings and scaled a drainpipe and found his way to the queen’s bedroom.Įn route, he broke a glass ashtray in an anteroom. While the details sound straight out of the murder game Clue, the exact intentions Michael Fagan had when he wandered into Buckingham Palace on July 9, 1982, are unclear - even to himself. Before he killed himself at 33 in prison, where he was being held for another unrelated crime, he reportedly told his partner of his attempt on the queen, saying, “Damn… I missed.” The incident wasn’t revealed until 1981.ġ0 Images A man broke into the queen’s bedroom twice in one month in 1982Īn intruder in the Queen’s bedroom with a broken piece from a glass ashtray. Lewis then set his sights on Prince Charles, trying to escape from a psychiatric ward to do so. Kiwi police, reportedly worried that the royals would never return, explained the sound as a sign falling over and later also said it was firecrackers. ![]() As it turns out, his weapon couldn’t have shot so far, and he wasn’t exactly in the best physical location to do so. Hiding in an empty toilet stall on the fifth floor of a building in Dunedin, John Lewis took aim with a rifle, just as the royals got out of a Rolls-Royce.įortunately for the queen, Lewis missed. Photo: PA Images via Getty Images Just months later, another 17-year-old shot at the queen in New Zealandįour months later on October 14, 1981, the queen was visiting New Zealand with Prince Philip, when another 17-year-old had the same idea. Queen Elizabeth II calms her horse while policemen spring to action after shots were heard as she rode down the mall during Trooping the Color in 1981 ![]()
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