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There's this story of a guy named Michael Fagan, and it fascinates me.
This is a story that took place in June 1982 in London.
Michael was 30 years old, and he was an interior painter.
He had a wife and six children.
But times were tough for him and he was having trouble supporting all those kids.
And he wasn't mentally stable.
His wife couldn't take living with him anymore, and she left.
And that was the night of June 7, 1982.
Here's Michael in his own words, saying, what happened next?
My nerves were pretty bad.
They were going up and down, was going through this breakdown.
And I'd walked around the streets of London and I suddenly come across Buckingham palace.
So this audio is from a BBC interview they did with Michael in 1993.
Now, Buckingham palace is where the Queen of England lives.
It's a huge building, three stories tall, 775 rooms.
And at night, it's clearly closed to the public.
But the palace is in the heart of London, running along some public roads.
Michael was walking down one of those.
Roads and I could see the window open.
It was there subconsciously to do it, probably.