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Coldstream Guards at Windsor Castle in 2018: Partying with the wrong priest?
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According to media reports, an intruder disguised as a priest infiltrated the guards at Windsor Castle and celebrated with them.
An investigation into the incident has been launched and is being treated with the highest priority, a spokesman for the British military told the Guardian.
According to the report, the police were alerted last Wednesday.
An intruder was said to be at Victoria Barracks in Windsor, not far from the castle.
Meanwhile, the Queen was at her country estate in Sandringham.
The man told the soldiers at the entrance to the barracks that his name was Father Cruise.
TalkTV reports, citing an anonymous source, that the man posed as a friend of the military chaplain in charge.
Slept in the barracks?
According to the reports, the man spent the evening with high-ranking officers.
He told stories from the Iraq war and drank with them.
He was even offered a bed for the night.
The scam was apparently exposed the next day: the police announced that the "intruder" had been taken out of the barracks on Wednesday morning.
The military said it took this "security issue very seriously."
The Coldstream Guard is housed in Victoria Barracks.
A regiment of the British Army traditionally responsible for the protection of Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.
The soldiers are known for their distinctive red jackets and black bearskin hats.
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