The Queen came under fire for handling of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997.
Charles, then Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales attend the opening of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in November 1989 (Photo: Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images) Diana’s death Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles married in 2005 the first time a direct descendant to the throne was allowed to remarry, and to a divorcee. The Royal Family was swept up in scandal over the breakdown of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales.ĭiana, Princess of Wales, blamed the relationship between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles – now Queen consort – for the breakdown, famously telling BBC1 Panorama in 1995: “Well there were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.” Prince Charles was praised for his calm response to the situation. Kang was swiftly wrestled to the ground by John Fahey, the New South Wales premier, and another man. Aerial view of Windsor Castle after the fire (Photo: Mathieu Polak/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images) Student chargeĪ student called David Kang fired a starting pistol at the then Prince of Wales and charged at him as the heir to the throne was about to give a speech in Sydney, Australia, in 1994. The incident triggered a five-year-long restoration project. Staff scrambled to remove art from the Royal Collection, dumping it in the Castle’s Quadrangle to protect it from the flames. It began in a chapel when a faulty spotlight set fire to a curtain next to an altar, and burned for 15 hours. In November 1992, a fire broke out at Windsor Castle, destroying 115 rooms and requiring 225 firefighters. It was in the same year that an intruder walked into St James’s Palace and downed a whisky in Princess Alexandra’s private apartment.Ī year earlier in 1991, Darryl Marcus, 21, managed to get within yards of the Queen’s private apartments during a seven-minute stint in the Buckingham Palace grounds. In 1992, Kevin McMahon, 25, was arrested inside the grounds of Buckingham Palace twice in the space of a week.
An artist’s impression of the moment intruder Michael Fagan entered the Queen’s bedroom at Buckingham Palace in 1982 (Photo: Mirrorpix/Getty) Grounds intruders The Queen managed to raise the alarm when he asked for a cigarette and he was held by a footman until the police arrived. Fagan spent about 10 minutes talking to her after he climbed over the palace walls and up a drainpipe. In July 1982, Michael Fagan managed to evade palace guards to gain entry to the Queen’s private chambers while she was in bed. The Queen’s horse was startled but she managed to bring it back under control as police rushed to grab the shooter. Six blank shots were fired from the crowd while the Queen rode during the Trooping the Colour ceremony in 1981.
Queen Elizabeth II at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, with Lord Mountbatten in 1965 (Photo: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Shooter at ceremony Lord Mountbatten regularly holidayed at his summer home, Classiebawn Castle in Mullaghmore, a village just 12 miles from the border with Northern Ireland. The Queen’s cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was killed in August 1979 by an IRA bomb planted on a leisure boat he was using in Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. She is famously said to have told him: “Not bloody likely.” Lord Mountbatten assassination It was reported that Ball grabbed Princess Anne by the arm and tried to pull her out of the car. A ransom note demanding £3m for her release was later found and Ian Ball, 26, was prosecuted. A man emerged and fired six shots, resulting in the injury of both the Princess’s private detective and chauffeur.
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