Scotland Yard confirmed it had stopped the prince and said the force had "apologised for any inconvenience".
The incident happened two days after a man was arrested on suspicion of burglary inside the palace.
The duke said: "The police have a difficult job to do balancing security for the Royal Family and deterring intruders, and sometimes they get it wrong.
A photo of the mistaken intruder, Prince Andrew, who is also Duke of York, was released by the BBC with a caption "The duke had earlier attended an engagement in central London"
'No weapons drawn'
Police said no weapons were drawn in the incident involving the duke, who is the Queen's second son and has an apartment and office at Buckingham Palace.The report does not include an account of weather conditions at the time of the incident.
BBC News UK
6 comments:
The good news is the police didn't shoot his dog.
They should have dropped him like a bag of dirt.
In the US, they'd call a SWAT team and fill him fulla bullet holes before figuring out who he was and then say it looked like he was going for a weapon so it's all fine.
In the US, if he was an intruder, but an illegal alien, he'd get scooped up and given free food, welfare money, free health care, free college tuition, and a free phone.
And if he was gay, they'd close some mom-n-pop bakery for not celebrating his nuptials with sufficient fervor.
Andy has better sense than Choom, apparently.
Security has been breached on a number of occasions at the palace, most famously in 1982 when Michael Fagan broke into the Queen's bedroom.
The monarch woke to find Fagan, 30, sitting on her bed, and the pair reportedly chatted for half an hour before he was arrested.
Apparently the queen used "her words" very nicely.
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