14 DAY TRIAL // Londoners woke up this morning shocked by the news that a man had been found dead, impaled on the fence of the Kensington Palace, in one of the ritziest streets in West London. The police scrambled to find out what happened, but at the moment, the investigation is still ongoing.
The fact that the corpse of the man was found just meters from the official home of Prince William and Kate Middleton spurred the imagination of British media, which was quick to draw conclusions about how the death could be connected to the royals.
The police aren't considering the death suspicious, think the man was one of the homeless people living in the area
The Mirror claims that the police were called in as the man was found hanging on the railing near St. Mary Abbott's Church at 6 in the morning. Emergency crew pronounced the man dead on the scene. His identity hasn't yet been uncovered, but the firemen called on the scene claimed that he was around 55 years old.
Presently, the police are not treating the death as suspicious, and the main presumption is that the man slipped on the railing and died when he tried to free himself from the church gardens. By all accounts, the police think that the man was a homeless person, but that doesn't explain why he was trying to scale the fence of the royal palace in the middle of the night.
A park officer is quoted as saying that there is a problem with homeless people in the area, and that their numbers have increased exponentially lately, by as much as 200 percent in the last year alone.
There have been several security issues with the royal couple at Kensington Palace recently
The news of the man's death comes just weeks after there were several reports that the Duchess and Prince William's security was threatened by all the attention from the press. Several pushy paparazzi were sent official letters warning them not to interfere with Prince George's daily schedule and to stop stalking him.
This is one of the main reasons Kate and William have decided to move to a more secluded location, Anmer Hall near Norfolk, despite having recently invested huge sums of money in refurbishing Kensington Palace and bringing it to an acceptable living standard for Prince George and his future sibling.
Kate was said to be keen to escape the attention of the media and the public, as Kensington Palace is located in a popular area of London, and people would often hang around the park's gates, hoping to catch a glimpse of the royal couple.