Robert Hardman

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TRIGGERnometry · The Truth About the Royal Family with Royal Reporter Robert Hardman · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

It's all just lovely and wonderful and everyone's nice and it's super.

It's not, I mean, the Suez crisis really rattled her.

That was only three years into uh her reign.

Um, you know, there'd been along the way a lot of

serious difficult moments.

I mean, as I say in the book, she had something akin to a

Uh not quite a nervous breakdown, but certainly nervous exhaustion in in in 1969.

Um I'd see I mean some uh utterly appalling moments in the 80s, um which which a lot of people um I think would would would have might have just chucked in the job.

I mean, I I still look back.

I think that the most extraordinary moment of her entire reign, if not her entire life, was that morning in 1981, where 1982's.

Sorry, um, where she woke up to find a uh a a strange man barefoot at the end of a bed dripping blood and holding a a broken ashtray and uh and and she's ringing the alarm bell and nothing happens, nobody comes.

And I mean how terrifying is that?

But she manages to keep him talking and keep him calm.

It's Michael Fagan, it's it's this um loser, um drug addict, um

mentally ill man who's cro broken into the palace.

She doesn't know who he is.

This is at a time when the IRA are trying to blow up the royal family.

They killed Lord Manbatten only three years earlier.

There are bombs going off.

Anything could could be behind this and she's gotta sit there and here is this this madman um at the end of her bed and she

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