Report: Masked Men Break into UK’s Windsor Castle Estate

The 1st Battalion Welsh Guards prepare for an inspection by Britain's King Charles III and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa during his visit to the UK to mark the year of his Silver Jubilee, at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Monday Nov. 11, 2024. (AP)
The 1st Battalion Welsh Guards prepare for an inspection by Britain's King Charles III and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa during his visit to the UK to mark the year of his Silver Jubilee, at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Monday Nov. 11, 2024. (AP)
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Report: Masked Men Break into UK’s Windsor Castle Estate

The 1st Battalion Welsh Guards prepare for an inspection by Britain's King Charles III and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa during his visit to the UK to mark the year of his Silver Jubilee, at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Monday Nov. 11, 2024. (AP)
The 1st Battalion Welsh Guards prepare for an inspection by Britain's King Charles III and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa during his visit to the UK to mark the year of his Silver Jubilee, at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Monday Nov. 11, 2024. (AP)

Two masked men broke into Britain's royal Windsor Castle estate last month and stole two vehicles from a barn, the Sun newspaper reported on Monday.

King Charles and his wife Camilla were not in the estate at the time of the incident but Prince William and his family were believed to be at Adelaide Cottage, part of the Windsor Castle estate, the Sun reported.

The men used a stolen truck to break through a security gate at night and then scaled a six-foot fence, the paper said.

Local police said officers were called to a report of a burglary on Crown Estate land in Windsor, west of London, just before midnight on Oct. 13.

"Offenders entered a farm building and made off with a black Izuzu pickup and a red quad bike. They then made off towards the Old Windsor/Datchet area," Thames Valley Police said in an emailed statement. "No arrests have been made at this stage and an investigation is ongoing."

Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

Windsor Castle previously faced a security scare in 2021 when authorities arrested a man with a crossbow in the grounds of the castle who said he had wanted to kill Queen Elizabeth.



Law and Disorder as Thai Police Station Comes under Monkey Attack

The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP/File
The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP/File
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Law and Disorder as Thai Police Station Comes under Monkey Attack

The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP/File
The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP/File

Police in central Thailand said they barricaded themselves into their own station over the weekend, after a menacing mob of 200 escaped monkeys ran riot on the town.
The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population and authorities have built special enclosures to contain groups of the unruly residents.
But on Saturday around 200 of the primates broke out and rampaged through town, with one posse descending on a local police station.
"We've had to make sure doors and windows are closed to prevent them from entering the building for food," police captain Somchai Seedee told AFP on Monday.
He was concerned the marauders could destroy property including police documents, he added.
Traffic cops and officers on guard duty were being called in to fend off the visitors, the Lopburi police said on Facebook on Sunday.
Around a dozen of the intruders were still perched proudly on the roof of the police station on Monday, photos from local media showed.
Down in the streets, hapless police and local authorities were working to round up rogue individuals, luring them away from residential areas with food.
While Thailand is an overwhelmingly Buddhist nation, it has long assimilated Hindu traditions and lore from its pre-Buddhist era.
As a result monkeys are afforded a special place in Thai hearts thanks to the heroic Hindu monkey Hanuman, who helped Rama rescue his beloved wife Sita from the clutches of an evil demon king.
Thousands of the fearless primates rule the streets around the Pra Prang Sam Yod temple in the center of Lopburi.
The town has been laying on an annual feast of fruit for its population of macaques since the late 1980s, part religious tradition and part tourist attraction.
But their growing numbers, vandalism and mob fights have made an uneasy coexistence with their human neighbors almost intolerable.
Lopburi authorities have tried quelling instances of human-macaque clashes with sterilization and relocation programs.