" walk past her bed and it looks too small to be the Queen. According to a 1982 report from Scotland Yard, Fagan "intended to slash his wrists" in front of the Queen.Īfter reaching the Queen's room, Fagan second-guessed himself. Fagan claimed he navigated by " the pictures" to the right room in 1982, but then during a 1993 BBC radio interview, edited himself: "I don't know how the hell I found her."īefore entering the Queen's bedroom, Fagan smashed a glass ashtray in the anteroom. on July 9, 1982, Fagan climbed over the gates shimmied up a drainpipe and, after removing his shoes, walked across a narrow ledge into the Master of the Household's office.įrom there, Fagan managed to find the Queen's bedroom among over 200 bedrooms in Buckingham Palace. The day after he was released, he went back to the palace. Soon after the first break-in, Fagan was arrested for stealing a car, and spent three weeks in prison. The Crown accurately depicts Fagan's path to the Queen's bedroom-but fictionalizes what happened after he really got there. On his second visit, Fagan made it to the Queen's bedroom. Maybe it was due a redec?" he told The Mirrorin 2019. I don't think they spent too much on decoration. I was having a laugh to myself because there was one right next to it, so I tried another," he told The Independent.įagan wasn't impressed by what he saw. It was like Goldilocks and the Three Bears I tried one throne and was like 'this one's too soft'. I was just waiting to be captured," he said.īefore sneaking out through the back gardens, Fagan also tried out the thrones. While speaking to The Independent, Fagan said that he couldn't find a bathroom, so he "peed on the corgi food." In an article from 1982, The New York Times reported that Fagan drank a bottle of wine belonging to Prince Charles. The first time he snuck into Buckingham Palace, Fagan roamed freely. Though The Crown depicts otherwise, Fagan was undetected. Fagan snuck into Buckingham Palace once before undetected, and drank Prince Charles's wine.Ĭlearly, Fagan had a knack for scaling the 14-foot palace walls, topped with barbed wire and revolving spikes, because he did it more than once. Fagan had a point: According to the BBC, this was the sixth breach of security at the Queen's London residence in 1982. In 1982, Fagan's father said his son only wanted "to prove how easy it was to get in" to the palace, and not harm the Queen, per The Guardian. Long obsessed with the Queen, Fagan made 12 trips to Buckingham Palace that summer, telling his mother he was visiting his girlfriend "Elizabeth Regina." Regina is Latin for "queen." His wife, Christine, had just left him, per The Independent.Īccording to The Washington Post, Fagan's break-ins didn't come as the result of a whim. Fagan was married in 1972, and had four children, aged 3 to 10.
However, there are some biographical details omitted. In 1982, Michael Fagan was a 32-year-old unemployed decorator. This is the true story about what happened when the Queen met Michael Fagan, and where 72-year-old Fagan is now. Queen Elizabeth is seldom depicted as having heart-to-hearts with the public in The Crown, the rare exception being season 3's wrenching "Aberfan." Instead, she has shallow greetings with well-dressed, smiling crowds, as depicted in the start of "Fagan."Īccording to The Crown, it takes palace intrusion for the Queen to have an unvarnished conversation with a commoner, and hear about life on the ground. The Crown imagines what they might have said to one another.Ī fascinating episode, "Fagan" shows what happens when the rarefied royal world briefly intersects with dire working class realities in 1980s England. "I was under a lot of stress and just wanted to talk to the Queen about what I was going through," Fagan explained later, per Penny Juror's book The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor.
Here's the real story of the Buckingham palace intruder-and where Fagan is now."I was scareder than I'd ever been in my life," Fagan told The Independentyears later, in 2012.The Crown depicts the real 1982 incident in which 32-year-old Michael Fagan managed to sneak into Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom in Buckingham Palace.
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