Episode 5: Fagan
The Crown: The Official Podcast
Netflix
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finally from here in London under the heading is nobody safe anymore. A royal ruckus has |
| 0:09.8 | started over the man who had an audience with Queen Elizabeth, |
| 0:13.0 | uninvited and unannounced in the Queen's bedroom |
| 0:16.0 | in the middle of the night. |
| 0:17.0 | The man had cut himself on a broken window |
| 0:19.0 | and left bloodstains on the Queen's bed. |
| 0:22.0 | Yesterday's intruder was able to get through an elaborate system of electronic alarms |
| 0:27.0 | as well as pass palace guards and police. |
| 0:30.0 | The man was identified as 30-year-old Michael Fagan. |
| 0:33.0 | A police investigation indicates that Fagan climbed over a fence into the 51 acre palace grounds during the night. |
| 0:38.8 | He then reported the climbed drain pipe and entered the royal quarters through a window. |
| 0:42.8 | And made his way to the Queen's private bedroom on the first floor. |
| 0:46.0 | For ten minutes he sat talking six feet away from the Queen. |
| 0:50.0 | Then he asked her for a cigarette. |
| 0:52.0 | According to his mother, he spoke of a girlfriend called Elizabeth living in SW1. |
| 0:57.0 | The incident has shocked Britain and resulted in a Scotland Yard investigation of Royal Security. |
| 1:03.0 | Mrs Thatcher made an urgent return to the House of Commons today ahead of a statement from the Home Secretary. |
| 1:08.6 | The House will admire the calm way in which her majesty responded to what occurred. |
| 1:14.0 | The Queen has carried on performing her duties seemingly unperturbed, |
| 1:18.0 | despite the unprecedented and severe level of threat that the intruder posed. |
| 1:24.0 | The incident left Royal Commentators asking two questions. |
| 1:28.0 | How on earth did he get in? |
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