Met police arrest 25-year-old man after he climbed over wall into Royal Mews next to Buckingham Palace

A man was arrested in the early hours of this morning after he climbed over a wall into the Royal Mews area next to Buckingham Palace, the Met Police has said.

Scotland Yard said that officers at royal residence responded to a person climbing the wall and entering the Royal Mews at at 1.25am today.

After a search, a 25-year-old man was detained by officers outside the stables in the Royal Mews.

The force said that at no point did the man enter Buckingham Palace or the Palace Gardens.

The man has been arrested under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act for trespassing on a protected site, the Met said.

Officers took him to a London police station where he still remains in custody.

A man who appears to have witnessed the police response to the incident wrote about it on X, formerly known as Twitter, at just before 2.30am.

He said there was a heavy police presence in at the palace saying that it was ‘surrounded by police officers’ and that a ‘helicopter was circling above’.

Asking if others knew what was happening, he wrote: ‘Anyone know what’s going on at Buckingham Palace right now? Entire perimeter of the palace is surround [sic] by police officers, helicopter circling above.’ 

He later said more officers started turning up in blue vans and that police were stationed ‘every few yards’ along the walls of the palace gardens.

At 6.50am he wrote: ‘More officers started turning up in blue vans with Territorial Support Group on the sides and started deploying officers every few yards along the walls of the gardens etc.

‘When I got back 3 hours later it was business as usual.’

Scotland Yard said that officers at royal residence responded to a person climbing the wall and entering the Royal Mews (pictured during a rehearsal for the King’s Coronation in April) at 1.25am today