Buckingham Break-ins

During my Sandeman tour of the city we visited Buckingham Palace. This is where the Queen of England lives. When the Queen is home there is a special flag that is raised about the Palace. When we visited she was not home. Our guide told us some stories about the best Buckingham Palace break-ins. I thought I would share them with you:

1.       Two German men came and visited London. Instead of paying for a hotel they decided that they would sleep in Hyde Park. After a night on the town they found what they thought were the park walls and decided to climb them. They set up camp and even built a fire and then went to bed. When they woke-up they tried to find a way out of the park but they couldn’t. They walked until they found someone (one of the palace guards) and when they asked where the exit was they were told by gunpoint. Obviously, this was Buckingham palace and the men had spent the night in the Buckingham garden.

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There was a mentally unwell Irish man that had been living in the park across from Buckingham palace. One cold night he decided how unfair it was that he had to sleep on a park bench while the Queen got to sleep in a big soft bed. He climbed over one of the palace gates and broke in through a window. He knew he was going to be found by the guards so he ran from one end of the first floor of the palace to the other so he could see as much of the palace as he could before he was caught. The guard saw all the alarms for each room going off at the same time; because of this he figured the system was messed up. It was late at night and he didn’t want to wake up the Queen because of a false alarm so he turned the machine off. When the Irish man realized that no one was coming for him he decided to get something to eat. He found one of the Queen’s kitchens. He couldn’t find a light switch so he grabbed the first thing he could find to eat. It was a can of luxury dog food. He couldn’t find a can opener so he used a knife but when he tried to cut the can he ended up slicing his arm with it. He also found one of the Queen’s bottles of Port. After all the running around the palace, food, and alcohol the man began to get tired. The bedroom he found to sleep in ended up being the Queen’s. The Queen woke up to see a dirty man covered in dog food and smelling of liquor in her bedroom. She is trained for high risk situations so instead of freaking out she had a conversation with the man. They talked for a while and he asked her for a cigarette. The Queen said that, because she didn’t smoke, she would call and have one of her employees bring one up. The guard was called and she told him to bring a cigarette for her friend. The guard instantly knew something was wrong and the police were called. At this time the Palace was considered “public property” even though the Queen lived there so the man couldn’t be charged with breaking and entering. The only thing he could be charged with was stealing a bottle of Port and can of luxury dog food.