Word: queene
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...bombings occurred as Britons expressed mounting concern about the effectiveness of their country's police and intelligence services. Details of how Intruder Michael Fagan had found his way to the Queen's bedroom two weeks ago stirred a heated debate about protection for the royal family. In a separate incident, the Queen's chief bodyguard, Michael Trestrail, resigned after admitting that he had had frequent sexual relations with a male prostitute. The scandal came to light when Trestrail's lover, noting the publicity swirling around the palace intrusion, tried to sell his story to a British...
Despite growing police pressure on I.R.A. terrorists in both Britain and Northern Ireland over the past year, authorities acknowledge the organization's continuing ability to stage spectacular attacks, especially during highly publicized ceremonial occasions. As Major General Desmond Langley of the Queen's Household Guards said: "We must do everything we can to stop I.R.A. attacks. But it is difficult because ceremonial duties are public, predictable, routine and totally nontactical. If we attempt to vary times and routes, we are not fulfilling our ceremonial function." At week's end the police had arrested no suspect...
...Fagan managed his sunrise visit to the Queen...
London's strangest drama of the summer season continued in the Bow Street Magistrates' Court last week. Michael Fagan, 33, the unemployed laborer who had stunned Britain by wandering into Queen 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...
Trespass is not illegal under English law; criminal intent must be proved. Since Fagan did not threaten to harm the Queen, he was charged with stealing half a bottle of wine worth $5.40 during an earlier visit to the palace on June...