Intruder targets royals’ mansion twice
HARRY and Meghan’s multi-million dollar security was breached twice by an intruder said to have driven 2400 miles to sneak into their luxury Californian base.
Nickolas Brooks was caught trespassing at the £11million Montecito home near Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. Police attended and let the 37-year-old off with a warning. However, two days later he returned and was arrested by police.
According to reports in the US, Brooks had driven from his home in Ohio, in the Midwest, but it is unclear what he wanted from Harry and Meghan.
He has been charged with one count of misdemeanour trespassing. The incident could explain why Harry and Meghan spent some of their interview with Oprah Winfrey talking about their security. The Duke said Buckingham Palace withdrew their bodyguards when they quit as senior royals and moved to the US.
He also said he and Meghan only signed deals with Netflix and Spotify because they needed money to cover their own security after being “cut off financially”.
A MILLIONAIRE Brexit donor took a train journey from England to the Highlands in the middle of lockdown.
Jeremy John Hosking took his company’s eightcarriage sleeper train on a trip to Mallaig with an overnight stop on the Glenfinnan viaduct.
The reason for the five-day journey was described as “route learning/driver refresher”.
Train buff Hosking, who is a director of heritage rail company Locomotive Services Ltd, was spotted in Fort William last weekend.
Online train forum Rail Focus detailed how Hosking’s “Locomotive Services Limited is doing a driver refresher course all over northern England and Scotland for a few days” from March 4-8.
The train travelled from Crewe up the east coast of