American James Miller was fined £200 and deported.ġ995 - Student John Gillard rammed the Palace gates in his car at 50mph, tearing one off its hinges. July 1992 - Kevin McMahon, 25, was arrested inside the grounds for the second time in a week.ĭuring his first sortie, he forced a helicopter carrying the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to divert as he roamed the grounds.ġ994 - A naked paraglider landed on the roof of Buckingham Palace. Writing in her journal, the Queen said: 'But supposing he had come into the Bedroom, how frightened I should have been.'ĭr Jan Bondeson, a senior lecturer at Cardiff University who spent five years researching and writing a book about Jones, told how he got into the palace through unlooked doors or unshuttered windows on the ground floor. He also sat on the Queen's throne, read books from her library and stole food from her kitchen. On one of the occasions, he was able to read a letter that he took from her private rooms and then was caught with women's underwear spilling from his trousers. Remarkably, Jones was able to get into the palace on three separate occasions between 18. More than three decades earlier, 14-year-old Edward Jones sealed his place in history when he broke into Buckingham Palace and stole Victoria's knickers. The teenager who stole Queen Victoria's knickers O'Connor spent much of the rest of his life locked up in asylums. He headed to Australia and was meant to remain there, but instead came back to England less than a year later and returned to Buckingham Palace.Īfter being confronted again, he explained that he had hoped to be killed by police.

Victoria complained about his light sentence and so the teenager was persuaded to leave the country. O'Connor was quickly mocked by the press, denounced by the Irish republican movement and was sentenced to a year's hard labour. Above: A depiction of the incidentīut he was quickly thwarted by her loyal manservant John Brown. Teenage radical Arthur O'Connor, aged just 17, scaled the Palace fence and ran at her carriage. The penultimate one, in 1872, came when the monarch was inside the perimeter of Buckingham Palace. Queen Victoria survived seven attempts on her life.

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