Man arrested after climbing over a security fence at Buckingham Palace

The 22-year-old man was arrested after climbing into the London complex, according to police sources.

Metropolitan Police officers monitoring security cameras spotted the intruder around 4:15 a.m. local time as he tried to climb the fence surrounding the building.

It is understood that no members of the Royal Family were in residence at the palace at the time.

Scotland Yard said the man is now in custody at a police station in central London.

He did not gain access to the palace.

Buckingham Palace is also not her official main residence – that’s St James’s Palace, a few hundred yards away.

In a statement Met Police said that the breach is not believed to be terrorism related.

The incident follows another in May this year when Denis Hennessy, a 41-year-old man cut his right hand climbing over the perimeter wall of the palace.

Previous year two men got on to the roof of the Queen’s Gallery, close to the palace, as part of a protest over fathers’ rights while in 2013, a man scaled a fence and was arrested inside a room which was open to the public during the day.