A more up-close-and-personal security breach that occurred in July 1982 left the Queen equally unfazed. A thirty-one-year-old unemployed laborer named Michael Fagan broke into the Queen’s bedroom at Buckingham Palace at 7:15 A.M. by scaling a sixty-foot drainpipe. The Queen was still in bed at the time, awaiting her tea tray. When the intrusive Mr. Fagan appeared at her side, the Queen got up, put on her dressing gown and slippers, and told him sternly: “Get out of here at once.” No security officer appearing, Her Majesty sat on the edge of the bed and chatted politely to Fagan for a long five
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