The queen and the royal family are spending the vacations at Windsor Castle, situated about 20 miles west of London, somewhat than at their Sandringham family estate in Norfolk on account of the surge of COVID-19 cases. File Characterize by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Characterize
Dec. 25 (UPI) — An armed intruder used to be arrested at Windsor Castle west of London on Saturday, where Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II used to be celebrating Christmas alongside side her family, police acknowledged.
Thames Valley Police acknowledged a 19-year-ragged man from the British metropolis of Southampton used to be arrested on the grounds of royal operate carrying an unspecified “offensive weapon.”
The arrest came at 8: 30 a.m., hours before the queen’s annual Christmas Day message aired across the nation and worldwide.
The queen and the royal family are spending the vacations at Windsor Castle, situated about 20 miles west of London, somewhat than at their Sandringham family estate in Norfolk on account of the surge of COVID-19 cases.
The person used to be arrested on costs of breach or trespass of a protected put and possession of an offensive weapon, Thames Valley Police Supt. Rebecca Mears acknowledged in a yell.
The intruder did now no longer enter any constructions, she acknowledged, including that contributors of the royal family had been instructed of the incident.
“We operate now no longer reflect there is a distinguished broader hazard to the public,” Mears acknowledged.
Palestinian Christian Issa Kassissieh, dressed as Santa Claus, wears a protective plastic masks in opposition to COVID-19, as he waves whereas riding a camel outdoors the Extinct City of Jerusalem on December 23, before the Christmas holiday. Characterize by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Characterize
