This content is imported from vimeo. This content is imported from poll. [1] He viewed royal portraits and sat for some time on a throne. According to a Scotland Yard investigation, Fagan says he found a glass ashtray in an anteroom and broke it, intending to slit his wrists in front of the Queen. Nearly 40 years later, the worst security breach in Buckingham Palace history is revisited in season four, episode five, of The Crown, Fagan. Instead of showing it from the queens perspective, creator Peter Morgan approaches it from the downtrodden eyes of Fagan. In the first anteroom to the Queens chambers, Fagan hatched a plan to slit his wrists in front of Her Majesty. He was unemployed at the time of the break-ins. Paul Michael Fagan Obituary - Tribute Archive So I go over and draw the curtain back, just to make sure, and suddenly she sat up," Fagan saidjust as he does in The Crown. According to The Time, Grant "stretched the doctrine of constituency interest to grotesque lengths by claiming that the fact that Mr Michael Fagan lived in Islington gave Mr Grant a constituency interest in the bedchamber incursion [at Buckingham Palace]" (published 27th July 1982). In July 1982, Mr Fagan, then 33, scaled the Palace's 14ft parameter wall for the second time in two months, shinned up a drain pipe and climbed through an unlocked window. What Really Happened With Michael Fagan And the Queen? - Refinery29 Entering the royal apartments, Michael Fagan "spent ten minutes" in the Queen's bedchamber in the early hours of Friday morning, 9th July 1982 (via The Times front-page, 3th July 1982), after entering at 7.15am and opening the curtains. Soon after, Fagan received a psychiatric evaluation, and spent three months in a psychiatric hospital. Regardless of his motivation, Fagan may have taken his courage that night from a previous success; after all, July 9, 1982 wasn't the first time he illegally entered Buckingham Palace. He had two younger sisters, Marjorie and Elizabeth. Shes destroying the country, Fagan tells the Queen. Michael T. "Mike" Fagan, 71, of Meadowlakes, Texas, passed away July 28, 2015, at his home. According to a story from The Guardian following the incident, he initially told the police that he broke in to see the Queen because he was in love with her, but on other occasions he has suggested that he thought the Queen might be able to help him in some way, per The Sun, or, as he told the Independent, that the decision was fueled by a prolonged reaction to taking hallucinogenic mushrooms several months before. Why? He scaled the palace's 14-foot-high (4.3m) perimeter wall that was topped with revolving spikes and barbed wire. I eventually found a door and walked out into the back gardens, climbed over the wall and walked down the Mall, looking back and thinking 'ooh,'" he told the Independent. Michael Melvin Fagan joined his wife on the morning of Dec. 16, 2021, surrounded by family, and love in the same home she passed 28 years ago. It wasn't his last time in court. And then there was the break-up of Michael's marriage to also consider. [2] An alarm sensor detected his movements, but police thought the alarm was faulty and silenced it. With a shard of the broken ashtray in hand, he entered the Queens bedroom, opened the curtains surrounding her bed, and sat down on the foot of the bed. "I found rooms saying. Fagan made his way through the halls of Buckingham Palace unimpeded, twice setting off alarms without being caught. The comments below have not been moderated, By The Queen telephoned to summon the police twice; none arrived in time. He attended Compton Street School until the age of 16, when he left home. Meanwhile the footman was outside exercising the palace corgis, and the maid was cleaning in another room with the door shut "so that the noise of her work would not disturb Her Majesty". What are you doing here? Fagan says the monarch asked when he pulled back her curtains. "It was very ordinary. She is believed to have said "What are you doing here?" He claimed that he had not entered the palace with this intention but that it formed in his mind for the first time when he saw the ashtray.". Fagan had a point: According to the BBC, this was the sixth breach of security at the Queen's London residence in 1982. I bet the rest of it is a fiction as well. "I went back because I thought 'that's naughty, that's naughty that I can walk round there'." He was barefoot, unshaven, and wearing only a sweatshirt and jeans. If she does, I'll send her a hundredth-birthday telegram," he told The Independent. In 1972, he married his wife Christine, with whom he had four children. Michael Fagan in 1985. The episode takes us out onto the streets of Margaret Thatcher's Britain, 1982, where unemployment has risen above three million - the highest rate since the 1930s depression. 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[5] The duty footman, Paul Whybrew, who had been walking the Queen's dogs, arrived, followed by two policemen on palace duty, who removed Fagan. Maybe it was due a redec?" A police report heavily criticised of the officers on duty and the security systems in place. According to the same newspaper report, the jury took only 10 minutes to decide that Fagan was 'not guilty'. He was then sent to a psychiatric hospital for three months. Stephanie Linning For Mailonline, The Crown poses a 'major risk' to Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall's popularity by depicting Princess Diana being 'mocked' within the royal family 'like Meghan Markle', Finding Freedom author claims, Prince Harry said he would 'insist' on The Crown ending before it reaches his time and is 'disloyal and rude' for taking money from Netflix which has 'ridiculed' his family, royal biographer claims. "It was harder to get out than get in, Fagan said of his exit. Michael Fagan was a painter and decorator from Clerkenwell, London, born 8th August 1948. Why Michael Fagan didn't face criminal charges when he broke into
