Tue 28 December 2021:
British royalty is a right storm in an extravagantly adorned teacup these days, what with Megxit, the release of yet another movie as Diana, Princess of Wales, comes to the fore once more, and now, it seems we’re one scandal away from a maid shrieking “MURDER! Murder in the boudoir!”
Scotland Yard detectives are looking into the connection between a crossbow-wielding 19-year-old Southampton man arrested on Christmas Day at Windsor Castle, claiming he wanted to “assassinate” Queen Elizabeth II, and a video posted by British tabloid the Sun in which a masked and hooded person claims he wants to kill the Queen.
The chilling footage shows a masked figure in a dark hoodie holding a crossbow and addressing the camera with a distorted voice.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry for what I’ve done and what I will do. I will attempt to assassinate Elizabeth, Queen of the Royal Family.”
Scotland Yard detectives declined to comment on the identity of the man they arrested, but the New York Post reports that one Jaswant Singh Chail was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and is the same man in the video.
“This is revenge for those who have died in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre,” the person says, referring to the Massacre of Amritsar in India, where British troops killed 379 unarmed protesters and wounded approximately 1,200 on April 19, 1919.
The Queen was having her breakfast 500 meters away at about 08:30 GMT when the 19-year-old scaled a spiked fence with a rope ladder.
The suspect, who hails from Southampton, somehow managed to slip into the royal residence, where 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth was staying with her family for the holiday.
He apparently used a rope ladder to scale a metal fence to enter the gardens at the residence, according to the outlet.
Thames Valley Police Superintendent Rebecca Mears told the Sun that an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
“The man has been arrested on suspicion of breach or trespass of a protected site and possession of an offensive weapon,” Mears said. “He remains in custody at this time. We can confirm security processes were triggered within moments of the man entering the grounds, and he did not enter any buildings.”
The Queen spent Christmas at Windsor Castle this year as a result of Covid cases rising and the sweeping Omicron variant, which is spreading worldwide.
The Queen scrapped plans to stay at Sandringham Castle in Norfolk, and instead spent time ar Windsor.
Her Christmas address took place nationally at 3pm on Christmas Day, being broadcast nationwide.
“I’m an Indian Sikh, a Sith. My name was Jaswant Singh Chail, my name is Darth Jones,” he says in the video, channeling Darth Vader voiced by James Earl Jones in the original “Star Wars” trilogy.
A Met Police spokesperson said on Sunday night: “The man was taken into custody and has undergone a mental health assessment.
“He has since been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and remains in the care of medical professionals. Inquiries into the full circumstances of this incident are being progressed by Metropolitan Police Specialist Operations.”
Buckingham Palace has refused to comment on the matter.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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