EXCLUSIVE: As Netflix’s The Crown features Michael Fagan’s infamous security breach, the man himself recalls how he ‘felt sorry for the Queen… the Palace was shoddy and reminded me of the house in The Addams Family’
Michael Fagan has many memories of the day he broke into the Queen’s bedroom, but the image of Her Majesty tucked up in bed is oddly not the most abiding.
What he remembers best is the drab state of her home – and how lonely she looked in the middle of her huge bedroom.
Fagan is the man who went from obscurity to global fame in 1982 when he broke into Buckingham Palace not once, but twice – the second time walking into the Queen’s bedroom.
This week, the spotlight is back on the retired painter and decorator as the world gorges on the new series of hit Netflix drama, The Crown.
Amid the raging controversy surrounding its portrayal of Charles and Di’s ill-fated nuptials, it is the episode focusing on Fagan’s bizarre security breach and meeting with the Queen – played by Olivia Colman – that is proving most extraordinary of all to viewers.
Recalling the monarch’s bedroom, Fagan, 70, says: “It surprised me how shoddy it was.
