Royal Family Home Scandals: Fires, Break in and Safety Breaking

The royal family They always have world-class safety available but they are still suffering from scary and uncontrollable fires over the years.

One bad incident occurred in 1982 when a trespasser avoided Buckingham Castle barbed wire fences and managed to get all the way into the recent Queen Elizabeth IIBedroom before he was caught.

The trespasser could not be accused of trespassing due to Quirk of British law at the time, so he agreed for psychiatric treatment to avoid prosecution for stealing a bottle of wine from the palace.

More recently, there were three separate break -in attempts at Windsor Castle, including an incident on Christmas Day 2021 where a man armed with a crossbow tried unsuccessfully murdering Queen Elizabeth II.

Keep scrolling to get a look back at some scary events that happened in Royal Presbyteries:

Windsor Castle breaks in

The Thames Valley Police confirmed that a trespasser was in custody after trying to break into the royal family rural estate. Prince William and Kate Middleton Live on the grounds of Windsor Castle at Adelaide Cottage with their children Prince George, born 2013, Princess Charlotte, born 2015, and Prince Louis, born 2018.

A police spokesman told People.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed that the suspect had been arrested on “suspicion of trespassing on a protected site and possessing class A drugs,” before being released on bail.

“Officers on the land saw the man shortly after 13:00 o’clock on Sunday, 1 June and arrested quickly. He was then passed into the Custody of the Thames Valley Police,” added a Metropolitan Police statement.

Home of Princess Diana targeted in arson

The recent Princess DianaBrother Charles Spencer wrote through X In May 2025 it was “stunned” that their childhood home – known as Althorp House – was targeted in it suspected deliberate burning.

“Surprisingly learning that one of @Althorffouse farmhouses – fortunately, was empty at the time – apparently burned down by vandals last night. With thanks to @Northants Tan for doing their best. So sad that anyone would think this was a fun thing to do,” he wrote.

A spokesman for the Northampton Fire and Rescue Service confirmed BBC News Those first responders arrived to find a dormant farmhouse “fully on fire.” Four fire crews were sent to subdue the fire at Althorp House.

An investigation into the fire continued in June 2025. Police suggested that the fire were deliberately caused but the exact case is “yet to be decided.”

A previous fire destroyed an industrial unit at Althorp House in September 2024. Althorp House held an exhibition about the early life of Princess Diana between 1998 and 2013.

Inwardly hidden

In November 2024, Sky News reported that thieves masked had stolen two farm vehicles after Break into Windsor Castle while Prince William and his family sleep nearby at Adelaide Cottage.

Apparently, two hidden men rated the 6ft fence to access the property illegally and then commute a truck to burst through a safety gate. The pair fled from the scene a little later after stealing a red quad bike and Isuzu pickup.

“At approximately 11:45 pm on Sunday 13 October, we had a report of burglary in property on Crown Estate land close to the A308 in Windsor,” Thames Valley Police said in a statement at the time. “Criminals went into a farm building and removed the Isuzu black collection and a red quad bike. They then made away towards the old Windsor/Datchet area.

“No arrests have been made at present and an investigation is ongoing.”

No further updates were published in public.

Santa Barbara’s security cutting

The New York Post reported in July 2022 that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Have received six security warnings in their Montecito mansion, California within a 16 month period. Two intruder incidents are alleged to have occurred within 12 days of each other.

In the first place, a suspected intruder arrived on the couple’s property on their wedding birthday on May 17, 2022. A second incident involved the couple’s security team facing an alleged trespasser who agreed to leave the property without taking further action.

Another suspected trespasser was held on the property in 2020 and ordered not to return.

A crossbow intruder

Jaswas Singh Cail pleaded guilty to one account of trying to “injure or scare” the Queen under the Traus Act Sky News Reporting.

Court prosecutors said Chail had drawn up a plan over a year to try to murder Queen Elizabeth II as revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919 in India, where hundreds were killed during a clash between British colonial forces and independence activists.

It is alleged that chail was voiced for his intention to overcome Windsor Castle when armed with a crossbow and dressed Star Wars mask. Prosecutors found that the suspect was encouraged to fulfill his plan by Chatbot or that he was considering his “love.”

“I’m sorry for what I’ve done and what I’ll do. I’m going to try to murder Elizabeth, the queen of the royal family,” he said in one cooling Vlog.

Police caught chail on the land of Windsor Castle before he could carry through his plot. He was sentenced to nine years in custody.

Windsor Castle Fire

Furious fire 115 rooms – including nine state rooms – were destroyed at Windsor Castle in the early hours of the morning on November 20, 1992 after a magnifying glass fired a curtain inside the Queen Victoria private chapel.

By the time the fire was seen, he had already moved beyond the chapel and enclosed St George’s Hall nearby next door. As firefighters were busy using 36 pumps to try to extinguish the flames, Royal staff tried to draw so many works of art and other historic items from the property before they were burned. Their remarkable efforts were successful, as only Rosewood’s side board and a Sir William Beechey Painting was lost in the fire.

Ultimately, fire crews included the situation after 15 hours. It took an extensive rebuilding effort over five years to fully restore Windsor Castle by 1997.

A bedroom intruder

Michael Fagan Break into Buckingham Palace twice in July 1982, including Entering Queen Elizabeth II bedroom in his second attempt. Fagan is alleged to have been made over barbed wire fences on Buckingham Palace walls and then graduation of a drainage pipe, before entering the living quarters of the royal family.

The Queen woke up to find Magan holding a piece of glass at her bedside, so she engaged with him in a long conversation to keep him busy. When her attempt to warn the palace switchboard went unanswered, the bell finally used an alarm bell.

Fagan was arrested but was not charged with trespassing in the Queen’s Bedroom because of Quirk in British law at the time. (Buckingham Palace only became a “designated site” in 2005 that trespassing there became a crime.)

The intruder was accused of stealing wine from the property but eventually the palace fell all the changes when he agreed for psychiatric care.

Netflix’s popular series The crown Dramatizing the suffering in the episode of Four “Fagan,” where Seren played Slow Horses, Tom Brooke, the trespasser who portrayed Queen Elizabeth II’s Olivia Colman.

Cigarette burns

Before Buckingham Palace Kitchen Staff Agnes Cooke Revealed in his book Yes, ma’am: the secret life of royal servants that The Prince PhilipMother Princess Alice from Battenberg Caused repeatedly damaged while taking cigarette breaks with a woman-by-aros working for the royal family in the 1960s (through Marie Claire).

“Well, there was a woman-aros who was very friendly with Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, when Alice lived at Buckingham Palace, and they used to smoke cigarettes together in Alice-Cyfyn’s flat so that they set fire on a regular basis,” Cooke confirmed.

He went on, “and despite being very prestigious a member of one of Britain’s oldest and most aristocratic families this particular woman-aros wandered around with a cigarette stuck behind her ear, as a coal miner or carpenter.”

Princess Alice of Battenberg died in 1969 after spending the last two years of her life living in the palace.