Tom Brooke as Michael Fagan in The Crown (Credit: Netflix) While The Crown does not acknowledge this, a Scotland Yard report, shared in the New York Times , states that Fagan told police that he was planning to hurt himself in the Queen's presence, however, he has never discussed this since. The episode shows Fagan stalking Buckingham Palace, scaling the railings (the real Michael Fagan said it easier to get in than to get out), shinnying up a drainpipe, and then pushing his way through an open window. What The Crown Gets Wrong About the Time Michael Fagan Broke Into the Queen's Bedroom Many details of the Netflix hit's version of events are fictionalized. As Thatcher's policies create rising unemployment, a desperate man breaks into the palace, where he finds Elizabeth's bedroom and awakens her for a talk. The first time was on June 7, 1982 — after his wife had left him. Season four of "The Crown" shows a man breaking into the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace in 1982, an incident that happened in real life. He had two younger sisters, Margaret and Elizabeth. The Crown season four followed some of the major events the Royal Family dealt with in the 1970s and 80s. Real life palace intruder Michael Fagan says The Crown got his break-in to Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom all wrong—particularly his good looks.. https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/crown-used-lot-artistic-licence-22979959 The Crown season 4 episode 5 tells the story of Michael Fagan's royal break-in, but much of the true story is still left out. Michael Fagan was born in Clerkenwell, London, on 8 August 1948, the son of Ivy and Michael Fagan. Fagan then made his way to the private apartments, first to an anteroom where he smashed a glass ashtray into pieces. Michael Fagan urgently needs to talk to someone who doesn’t think Thatcher is the nation’s hero. As shown in The Crown , Fagan really was a painter and decorator, really had been married to a woman named Christine who left him, and really did have children. So, who was the real Michael Fagan? Here's the real story of the Buckingham palace … By Lauren Hubbard But while The Crown uses the story to dramatize the economic desperation of the Thatcher era, the real-life intentions of Fagan are a bit more nebulous, even to Fagan himself. He then entered the Queen’s bedroom at 7.15am carrying a piece of the ashtray. In 2020, Tom Brooke played Fagan in season 4 of The Crown. [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Season 4, Episode 5 of The Crown, “Fagan.”]. Michael Fagan reflects. Tom was given a fairly substantial role in the episode of The Crown and it shows the Queen and Michael having a chat about the country. Directed by Paul Whittington. Hey, how about the queen? And now Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan's infamous break-in will be re-visited in the new series of Netflix's The Crown. The series tackles the period of 1977 to 1990 - but where is Michael Fagan today? Did Michael Fagan speak to the Queen? So, this is where the version of events from the time of the incident and how it's now portrayed in The Crown differ. MICHAEL FAGAN is the subject of one of the episodes of The Crown season 4. In the episode, titled "Fagan," unemployed house painter Michael Fagan sneaks into Her Majesty's room, where he tells her his concerns about then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Since its Netflix premiere, The Crown has done a thorough job of diving deep into not only current events that surrounded the royal family since before Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, but also the scandals that passed through the doors of Buckingham Palace. He sneaks around what I expect were most of the sets of The Crown. The Crown examines Michael Fagan's 1982 Buckingham Palace break-in, leaving viewers to wonder about the legal consequences of intruding upon the Queen.During the end credits of the season 4 episode "Fagan," it's revealed that the subject was a free man just months after committing a high-profile trespass. His father was a steel erector and a "champion safe-breaker." Here's what really happened. Michael Fagan does claim to have broken into Buckingham Palace twice, as shown on The Crown. The Crown Season 4 revisits Michael Fagan’s infamous Buckingham Palace break-in. Here’s what really happened. With Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter, Gillian Anderson. BUCKINGHAM Palace prowler Michael Fagan has blasted Netflix for making him “too ugly” in The Crown. https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/crown-series-4-who-michael-19271666 https://screenrant.com/crown-michael-fagan-true-story-queen-changed The Crown depicts the real 1982 incident in which 32-year-old Michael Fagan managed to sneak into Queen Elizabeth II's... "I was scareder than I'd ever been in my life," Fagan told The Independent years later, in 2012. The story behind The Crown: Intruder Michael Fagan enters the Queen’s bedroom One of the most shocking breaches of royal security is explored in season 4 of Netflix drama The Crown – the morning a man found his way into the Queen’s bedroom.