He served four years in prison. Her wife is Kathryn Budig and they tied the knot on 4 October 2018. By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. According to the police, shortly before 7 a.m. on the morning of July 9, 1982, Fagan scaled his way into royal history as, after a night of drinking, he climbed over the fence of Buckingham Palace and made his way up a drainpipe and onto the roof. As she continued to wait, she was able to flag down a maid, who helped her steer Fagan into a nearby pantry with the promise of a cigarette. He enters the building through a window and is able to walk into the throne room, where he sits in one of the thrones, before drinking a bottle of wine and smashing a vase. However, he was acquitted of that charge by a jury in September 1982. This content is imported from vimeo. The Crown gets that much right. Fagan does exactly that, storming the palace to beg Her Majesty to save Britain from Thatcher. The Queen may not be eager to hear from Faganbut hey, at least hes not planning another unscheduled visit to Buckingham Palace. I don't think they spent too much on decoration. He served four years in prison. "I was thinking what to say and she said 'Get out, get out' and she jumped out of bed," Fagan told the BBC. He then entered the palace through an unlocked window on the roof, and wandered around for the next 30 minutes while eating cheddar cheese and crackers. The Netflix series dedicates an entire episode to the security breach, with English actor Tom Brooke portraying the infamous prowler. He was then sent to a psychiatric hospital for three months. A fascinating episode, "Fagan" shows what happens when the rarefied royal world briefly intersects with dire working class realities in 1980s England. The man who broke into the Queen's Buckingham Palace bedroom in 1982 has criticised Netflixfor 'having a pop at the Queen'. On June 7, 1982, Fagan, whose wife had just left him, climbed through a maid's bedroom window into Buckingham Palace with one mission in mind: to use the restroom. He was born January 12, 1939 in Norwalk, son of the late Kenneth Fagan and Gretchen (Coenen) Fagan. [1] In 1955, he attended Compton Street School in Clerkenwell (later St Peter & St Paul RC Primary School). [1] At some point in the 1970s1980s, Fagan was a member of a North London branch of the Workers Revolutionary Party. Fagan famously managed to scale the Palace walls before. 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'. Over the years, Fagan has been charged with theft, assaulting a police officer, indecent exposure, and dealing drugs. She then picked up the telephone by her bedside, asking the palace switchboard operator to send the police to her chambers, but after six minutes without rescue, she phoned again. Back then, trespassing was only a civil offense rather than a criminal one. It was cheap Californian. He attacked a Welsh police officer in 1984, and three years later, he was found guilty of indecent exposure. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. In a 1993 radio interview Fagan told listeners: 'The Queen, to me, represented all that was keeping me down and [my] lack of voiceI just wanted her to know what it feels like to just be an ordinary chap trying to make ends meet.'.
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