{"id":3633,"date":"2026-01-01T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/badvibes.live\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:29:31","slug":"intruder-with-heavy-rucksack-broke-into-grounds-of-kate-and-williams-home-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badvibes.live\/?p=3633","title":{"rendered":"Intruder \u2018with heavy rucksack\u2019 broke into grounds of Kate and William\u2019s home twice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An intruder with a \u2018heavy rucksack\u2019 allegedly managed to break into\u00a0Kensington Palace<\/a>\u00a0grounds twice in the run-up to\u00a0Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Derek Egan has been accused of scaling the fence before being caught and arrested on December 21.<\/p>\n

But just two days later the 39-year-old was arrested again for trespassing after allegedly breaking in a second time.<\/p>\n

He appeared at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on Wednesday where he reportedly hammered on the glass,\u00a0The Sun<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n

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\u2018I am not granting him bail. The Attorney General needs to consider any further security risks before granting consent to prosecute.\u2019<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Metropolitan Police<\/a>\u00a0said: \u2018On Tuesday, 23 December, Derek Egan, 39 (23.05.86) of Clayfield Way, Hillingdon was charged with trespassing on a protected site and breaching bail conditions.<\/p>\n

\u2018He was remanded in custody and appeared at Bromley Magistrates\u2019 Court on Wednesday, 24 December.<\/p>\n

\u2018The charges relate to incidents on Sunday, 21 December and Tuesday, 23 December when Egan was arrested on suspicion of trespassing on a protected site in Palace Green, Kensington.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Derek Egan has been accused of scaling the fence before being caught and arrested on December 21 (Picture: Shutterstock\/Jakub Zajic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kensington Palace is the official home of the Prince and Princess of Wales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is not clear if any\u00a0royals<\/a>\u00a0were in grounds at the time of the intrusions.<\/p>\n

It is the official residence of the Prince and Princess of\u00a0Wales<\/a>\u00a0and their three children, but they have lived in Anmer Hall in\u00a0Norfolk<\/a>\u00a0since 2022.<\/p>\n

But Kensington Palace is home to the late Queen\u2019s cousin, the Duke of Gloucester, 81, and his wife Birgitte van Deurs, 79, who\u00a0live in its Old Stables<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Princess Eugenie and\u00a0Jack Brooksbank<\/a>\u00a0also live in Nottingham Cottage on the grounds with their two sons.<\/p>\n

But this is hardly the first incidence of a royal palace being breached.<\/p>\n

In August 2023, Thuraisingham Kumanaraj climbed over gates of Buckingham Palace \u2013 but told police he didn\u2019t know where he was and was just looking for somewhere to pee.<\/p>\n

But police seized his phone and discovered he had been searching online for Buckingham Palace as well as members of the royal family.<\/p>\n

In 2019 a 22-year-old\u00a0man scaled the fence of\u00a0Buckingham Palace<\/a>\u00a0in the early hours of the morning and got just metres away from the Queen.<\/p>\n

The intruder was banging on doors in an attempt to get inside the palace as the head of state slept in her bedroom.<\/p>\n

Probably the most famous Buckingham Palace break-in, however, was in 1982, when unemployed labourer Michael Fagan climbed over the palace walls and got into the Queen\u2019s bedroom.<\/p>\n

The monarch pushed the panic button by her bed but got no response while the 31-year-old schizophrenic began talking about his family problems.<\/p>\n

She phoned the switchboard but the operator thought it was a prank and couldn\u2019t have been the Queen herself.<\/p>\n

Fagan smashed a glass ashtray and threatened to cut his wrists with it as he sat on the end of the Queen\u2019s bed.<\/p>\n

The monarch\u2019s long-time aide Paul Whybrew eventually arrived, calmed him down before wrestling him to the ground.<\/p>\n

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An intruder with a \u2018heavy rucksack\u2019 allegedly managed to break into\u00a0Kensington Palace\u00a0grounds twice in the run-up to\u00a0Christmas. Derek Egan has been accused of scaling the fence before being caught and arrested on December 21. But just two days later the 39-year-old was arrested again for trespassing after allegedly breaking in a second time. He appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t