Masked thieves burglarized Windsor estate where Prince William, Kate Middleton live

Police successful England are hunting for a brace of masked thieves who broke into a workplace gathering connected the royal family’s Windsor Castle property not acold from the cottage connected the property wherever the Prince and Princess of Wales live.

The burglars scaled a 6-foot obstruction to break into Shaw Farm, a moving workplace connected the 15,800-acre estate, and past “made disconnected with a achromatic Isuzu pickup and a reddish quad bike,” Thames Valley Police told NBC News connected Monday successful revealing the Oct. 13 heist. “No arrests person been made astatine this stage, and an probe is ongoing.”

They escaped by smashing done a information gross with the stolen vehicle, constabulary said.

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William and Kate person lived astatine Adelaide Cottage, adjacent the children’s school, since 2022. (Getty)

William and Kate were reportedly successful residence astatine the clip astatine adjacent Adelaide Cottage during the 11:45 p.m. break-in but were not successful immoderate danger, constabulary said. They person lived astatine the cottage, near the children’s school, since 2022.

Nonetheless, the quality had to beryllium jarring, arsenic NBC News royal contributor Emily Nash noted.

“As parents of young children, the prince and princess privation to guarantee that the spot they’re surviving successful is arsenic unafraid arsenic possible, and I’m beauteous definite that is the case,” Nash told NBC News. “But it’s evidently concerning erstwhile thing similar this happens, peculiarly successful an country that you’d expect to beryllium precise secure.”

The information breach was the 2nd large 1 successful astir 3 years. On Christmas Day 2021 a antheral wielding a crossbow made it onto the grounds and declared helium intended to termination Queen Elizabeth II. Jaswant Singh Chail received 9 years successful prison aft his February 2023 condemnation for treason.

Windsor Castle itself is one of the residences of King Charles and Queen Camilla, though they were not location astatine the time. Charles was successful Scotland, and the queen was reportedly successful India up of their circuit to Australia and Samoa.

Senior royal household members person their ain information detail, and the young royals were not successful danger during the incident, BBC News reported. Neither Kensington Palace nor Buckingham Palace had immoderate comment, arsenic is mean process regarding information issues.