Major Windsor Castle security scare as masked men raid estate while William, Kate and their children sleep at home

MASKED raiders struck connected the Windsor Castle property arsenic the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children slept successful their location nearby.

Two men scaled a 6ft obstruction astatine nighttime to bargain workplace vehicles.

A root said: “They indispensable person been watching Windsor Castle for a while.”

The fleeing thieves utilized a stolen motortruck to smash their mode done a information gross astatine the royal estate.

Two masked men drove disconnected successful a pick-up and connected a quad motorcycle that were stored successful a barn.

King Charles and Queen Camilla were not successful residence.

But the Prince and Princess of Wales, some 42, were believed to beryllium astatine Adelaide Cottage with George, 11, Charlotte, nine, and six-year-old Louis.

It is conscionable 5 minutes distant and the household are regularly seen utilizing the wrecked gross — the nearest exit to their home.

News of the break-in comes aft The Sun connected Sunday revealed equipped constabulary were removed from Windsor Castle’s 2 main nationalist entrances, though weapon cops are inactive thought to patrol the grounds.

The raiders struck astatine Shaw Farm, a moving workplace wrong the Castle information zone.

A root said: “They would person to person known the vehicles were stored determination earlier they broke successful and known erstwhile was the champion clip to get and flight without being caught.

“So they indispensable person been watching Windsor Castle for a while.

“There are alarms astatine Windsor Castle but the archetypal clip anyone knew determination was a break-in was erstwhile they crashed done the information obstruction astatine Shaw Farm Gate exit.

“The obstruction has needed to beryllium replaced arsenic it was truthful severely damaged.

“It was a Sunday nighttime connected a schoolhouse week truthful the young princess and princess would person been tucked successful furniture astatine Adelaide Cottage, conscionable astir the country but inactive successful the grounds.”

William and Kate moved to the Cottage successful the summertime of 2022.

During the precocious Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, the procession to Windsor Castle began from the Shaw Farm gate.

The determination to region equipped constabulary from it and the different main entranceway for the nationalist and tradespeople was said to beryllium down to a shortage of qualified officers.

It was besides to soothe tourists tense astir gun-toting cops.

Armed constabulary present lone look astatine the beforehand of the castle astatine the Changing of The Guard ceremonies.

Last nighttime a spokesperson for Thames Valley Police, confirmed: “At astir 11.45pm connected Sunday October 13, we received a study of burglary astatine a spot connected Crown Estate onshore adjacent to the A308 successful Windsor.

“Offenders entered a workplace gathering and made disconnected with a achromatic Isuzu pick-up and a reddish quad bike. They past made disconnected towards the Old Windsor/Datchet area.

“No arrests person been made astatine this signifier and an probe is ongoing.”

The King was successful Scotland during the raid and it is believed Camilla was astatine a spa successful India up of the couple’s circuit of Australia and Samoa.

A spokesperson for the Prince and Princess of Wales declined to comment.

Previous Windsor Castle information scares see 1 connected Christmas Day 2021, erstwhile an intruder equipped with a crossbow climbed a obstruction and claimed helium wanted to termination the Queen.

Jaswant Singh Chail, 23, was jailed for 9 years for treason.

In February, an unarmed antheral was recovered successful the gardens extracurricular the King’s Windsor Castle apartments.

The antheral was arrested connected suspicion of trespass and detained nether the Mental Health Act.