Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captured." As courtroom explanations go, they were certainly imaginative. But they were enough to convince a jury at London's Old Bailey that Michael Fagan, 34, had not acted criminally. After deliberating for only 14 minutes, the jury found the unemployed laborer not guilty of burglarizing Buckingham Palace last June 7, when he drank half of a $5.40 bottle of Riesling belonging to Prince Charles...
...appeared somewhat perplexed by his photo debut. But "Sweet William," as the London press has dubbed him, will probably get used to such attention. This week on another important family occasion, the 82nd birthday of his great-grandmum, the Queen Mother, the little Prince will have his christening at Buckingham Palace. But unlike many an event in his busy life to come, it will not be televised...
...Elizabeth's bedroom three weeks ago, was brought into court for a bizarre 17-min. bail hearing. (Bail was denied.) At the same time, a Scotland Yard investigation of the affair revealed just how somnolent the Queen's protection had been during Fagan's peregrination through Buckingham Palace...
...Commons last week were harshly critical of palace security. Since the murder in 1979 of Earl Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, by Irish terrorists, $3.5 million has been spent on electronic beams, microwave barrier fences, closed-circuit TV, remote-controlled locks, reinforced doors and other security measures at Buckingham Palace. Yet Fagan was able to move about at will. The worst failings, however, were human ones. "If police officers had been alert and competent," said Dellow's report sharply, "Fagan would have been apprehended well before he got close to the private apartments." Whitelaw called the failure "appalling...
WHEN AN INTRUDER sneaks into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom in Buckingham Palace and holds the monarch at bay for 15 minutes with a broken glass ashtray, nothing the United States could do--short of attacking the Cliffs of Dover--would distract the British people from their chagrin and outrage...