The Royal Family's Number of Stalkers Has Increased Over the Past 3 Years

The royal family is encountering an increased number of stalkers, with an 11 percent rise over the past three years—and nearly 500 individuals identified as threats, according to The Mirror.

Of those 500 flagged, 35 have been determined to pose the highest risk, the outlet reported, citing figures from the Metropolitan Police’s Fixated Threat Assessment Centre.

“Unfortunately, there will always be deranged individuals who want to harm the royal family,” former Met royal protection chief Dai Davies told The Mirror. “The difficult task is identifying those with the means and determination to act.”

The Met’s Royalty and Specialist Protection Team is tasked with keeping the royal family safe, but security is always a known risk—just ask Prince Harry, who has argued for years that security and safety is an issue. Davies added that some stalkers are so passionate about reaching their royal targets that they even provide their real names and addresses when writing to them: “There are probably 50 to 100 people they are currently monitoring who they feel could pose a significant risk,” he said. “Quite often, these people will be mentally unwell, and some will be quite unsophisticated.”

ldquo;The difficult task is identifying those with the means and determination to act.” Princess Anne famously survived a kidnapping attempt in 1974, and her mother Queen Elizabeth came face-to-face with an intruder in 1982 after a man broke into her bedroom. Towards the end of her life, a man with a crossbow broke onto the grounds of Windsor Castle in 2021, and the next year an intruder dressed like a priest spent the night on the property.

Just this past November, the Windsor Estate was affected yet again when masked intruders stole vehicles close to the Adelaide Cottage home of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and Prince Andrew’s 30-room home, Royal Lodge, faced a security breach of its own when a woman wandered in the home, claiming she had a lunch date with the Duke of York.

Please fill out this field The Mirror that “there may be many more lurking in the shadows” and that it’s “impossible for the police to be 100 percent confident” that they’ve identified everyone with malintent towards the royal family.