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    Robbers Sneak into Windsor Castle Estate in UK

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    It is a well-known fact that robbers, burglars, thieves, killers treat their targets alike be the persons are commoners or of higher hierarchy.  The Sun (UK Edition) has recently informed about Major Windsor Castle security scare as masked men raid estate, while Prince & Princess of Wales, William and Kate and their children were sleeping in their home nearby.

    It has also revealed that armed police were removed from Windsor Castle’s two main public entrances.

    Two men scaled a 6ft fence at night to steal farm vehicles. The Prince and Princess of Wales were believed to be in residence at the time. A source said: “They must have been watching Windsor Castle for a while.”

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    The fleeing thieves used a stolen truck to smash their way through a security gate at the royal estate.

    The two masked men drove off on a quad bike that was stored in a barn. But the Prince and Princess of Wales, both 42, were believed to be at nearby Adelaide Cottage with George, 11, Charlotte, nine, and six-year-old Louis. It is five minutes away and the family is regularly seen using the wrecked gate — the nearest exit to their home.

    News of the break-in comes after ‘The Sun’ revealed armed police were removed from Windsor Castle’s two main public entrances, though gun cops are still thought to patrol the grounds.

    The raiders struck at Shaw Farm, a working farm inside the castle’s security zone. King Charles and Queen Camilla were not in the residence.

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    A source said, “They would have known the vehicles were stored there before they broke in and known when the best time was to get in and escape without being caught. So they must have been watching Windsor Castle for a while”.

    During Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, the procession to Windsor Castle began from the Shaw Farm gate. The decision to remove armed police from it and the other main entrance for the public and tradespeople was said to be down to a shortage of qualified officers. It was also to soothe tourists nerves about gun-toting cops. Armed police now appear only at the front of the castle at the Changing of the Guard ceremonies.

    Last night a spokesman for Thames Valley Police confirmed that they received a report of burglary at a property on Crown Estate land near to the A308 in Windsor, “Offenders entered a farm building and made off with a black Isuzu pick-up and a red quad bike. They then made off towards the Old Windsor/Datchet area. No arrests have been made at this stage and an investigation is ongoing.”

    The King was in Scotland during the raid and it is believed Camilla was at a spa in India ahead of the couple’s tour of Australia and Samoa. A spokesman for the Prince and Princess of Wales declined to comment.

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    Previous Windsor Castle security scares include one on Christmas Day 2021, when an intruder armed with a crossbow climbed a fence and claimed he wanted to kill the Queen. One person Chail aged 23, was jailed for nine years for the treason.

    “There are alarms at Windsor Castle but the first time anyone knew there was a break-in was when they crashed through the security barrier at Shaw Farm Gate exit. The barrier has needed to be replaced as it was so badly damaged. It was a Sunday night on a school week so the young princes and princess would have been tucked in bed at Adelaide Cottage, just around the corner but still in the grounds.” William and Kate moved to the Cottage in the summer of 2022.

    In February, an unarmed man was found in the gardens outside the King’s Windsor Castle apartments. The man was arrested on suspicion of trespass and detained under the Mental Health Act. This time, fleeing thieves used a stolen truck to smash their way through a Windsor Castle security gate.

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