God Save The Queen": Michael Fagan (1982)

On the night of 9 July 1982, Queen Elizabeth woke up in her apartments at Buckingham Palace to find a man sitting on the end of her bed.He was drunken cat burglar Michael Fagan, 33, and he later confessed it was the second time he had breached security to break into the supposedly ‘impregnable’ palace.At the time, the Royal family were under assassination threat from the IRA.The crime was an extreme embarrassment to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the head of Scotland Yard’s Royal Protection Squad was sacked.Since it was then a civil wrong rather than a criminal offence, Fagan was not charged for trespassing in the Queen's bedroom. He was charged with theft (of the wine), but the charges were dropped when he was committed for psychiatric evaluation. He spent the next six months in a psychiatric hospital before being released on 21 January 1983.