Queen security scare

Two intruders arrested after scaling fences at Windsor

INTRUDERS at the Queen’s Windsor estate were arrested after sparking a major security alert, it emerged yesterday.

A man and a woman scaled fences at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, close to where the 95-year- old monarch goes horse-riding and for walks with her dogs.

The lodge is home to Prince Andrew and his ex-wife the Duchess of York. It is near the Royal Chapel of All Saints, where the Queen attends Sunday service.

Police made two arrests after a report of trespassers in the grounds on the afternoon of April 25.

Thames Valley Police said: ‘Two people, a 29-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, both from London, were arrested on suspicion of being found in or upon enclosed premises.’ They have been released while inquiries continue.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman declined to comment.

It is the second alleged incident to have happened in the grounds of the Royal Lodge, in Berkshire, within days of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.

A woman reportedly talked her way into the Duke of York’s home on April 19. The 43-year-old told security she was having lunch with the Queen’s second son. She made her way into the home and was held after she asked staff where she could find the duke and said that she was his fiancee.

Thames Valley Police said she was stopped and later sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Ken

Wharfe, Princess Diana’s personal protection officer, told the Sun the security lapses are ‘unacceptable and make the Queen vulnerable’.

The worst security blunder involving the Queen was in 1982 when Michael Fagan broke into her bedroom at Buckingham Palace.