Intruders broke into the grounds of Windsor Castle last month and stole two vehicles, the police confirmed on Monday, a significant security breach at the sprawling royal estate west of London that is the primary residence of Prince William, his wife Catherine, and their three children.

William, the heir to the throne, and his family are believed to have been at home at the time of the burglary, according to The Sun, a London tabloid, which first reported the incident on Sunday. King Charles III and Queen Camilla also stay often at Windsor Castle, but were not there at the time.

“Offenders entered a farm building and made off with a black Isuzu pickup and a red quad bike,” the police spokesman said. “No arrests have been made at this stage and an investigation is ongoing.”

  • @MrNesser
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    298 hours ago

    Gotta admit it takes an iron set of balls to rob the royals on their own estate.

    • @andrewta
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      108 hours ago

      The clanging is what gave them away.

  • palordrolap
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    06 hours ago

    I would have expected that vehicles belonging to members of the royal family would have had trackers on them, and in hard-to-access, hard-to-disable places too. Anything else would be pure hubris.

    Also, if I was the site security, I’d be expecting a dismissal. A stolen vehicle could almost as easily have been a, er, “lethally modified” vehicle, for example.

    And the new staff get to do a full sweep of everything to make sure that this theft wasn’t a distraction from exactly that.

    • @yesman
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      76 hours ago

      Offenders entered a farm building and made off with a black Isuzu pickup and a red quad bike

      Somehow I doubt that the royals get chauffeured in the Isuzu much.