“Around 11:45 p.m., Sunday October 13, we were alerted to an intrusion into one of the Crown Estate properties, near the A308, in Windsor,” a police officer reported to the daily The Sun this November 17. To be more precise, the crime took place just 3.5 kilometers from Adelaide Cottage, the residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their three children. Enough to give William, Kate, George, Charlotte and Louis a cold sweat.
Still on the run, the two men are said to have scaled a gate of approximately two meters, the one which regularly serves as an entry and exit door in Wales, the closest to their residence. After landing at Shaw Farm, a farm belonging to the Windsor estate, they simply stole two vehicles parked in a barn, a black Isuzu pick-up and a red quad bike before fleeing, remaining , to this day, in the wild.
If no member of the royal family was put in danger, Charles III was in Scotland, his wife Camilla was revitalizing herself in a spa in India before their big trip to Oceania, and Wales was sleeping without realizing the burglary in progress , this attack raises questions. Are Kate and William safe? “They must have been monitoring Windsor Castle for some time now,” the police say of the two offenders. Certainly, but how did they manage to enter the property, normally under heavy guard? The answer lies in the workforce. Since the start of the school year, as told The Sun A few weeks ago, the decision was taken to remove police officers from the main entrances.
Armed Metropolitan Police officers are not numerous enough for some of them to be stationed in front of public entrances, as tourists do not particularly like the sight of armed police officers when they arrive in front of the castle. Now, armed men only appear in front of the main entrance during the changing of the guard ceremony. A mistake perhaps given what happened last month on the estate. This is not the first time that intruders have decided to defy the security of royal residences. Wales' last scare was at Christmas 2021, when a 23-year-old man equipped with a bow and arrows climbed one of the gates, shouting that he wanted to kill the Queen. He is today in prison. Enough to give food for thought to Princes Andrew and Prince Harry, whose security Charles III now refuses to finance.
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