Queen 'ran out in nightie after seeing intruder in Buckingham Palace bedroom'

mirror.co.uk:

The Queen demanded "What are you doing here" and ran out in her nightie when she was confronted by an intruder in her Buckingham Palace bedroom, the crook says.

Almost 40 years on, prowler Michael Fagan claims he broke into the palace because he thought the monarch could help him, but never intended to cause her any alarm.

Fagan, then 33, was "fixated" on the Queen, who he says sat up in bed and demanded to know what he was doing before she ran out of the room in her nightie to get help that morning in July 1982.

Their brief encounter was one of the worst royal security breaches in the 20th Century after dad-of-four Fagan - who says he was depressed after his wife Christine left him - clambered into the central London palace through an