UK Queen's Windsor Castle Gets No-Fly Zone Protection
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The 'no-fly zone' development comes in the wake of a recent security breach of the UK Queen's Windsor Castle grounds by a teenager.
The airspace surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's Windsor Castle residence in Berkshire, south-east England, will become a no-fly zone for security reasons from later this month, the British police said on Tuesday.
Following a public consultation by the local Thames Valley Police and the Metropolitan Police Service and an application to the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the "restricted airspace order" was approved for Windsor.
The development comes in the wake of a recent security breach of the 95-year-old monarch's grounds by a British Sikh teenager, being held under the UK's Mental Health Act after being caught with a crossbow last month.
"The order restricts the use of airspace up to 2,500ft within a 1.25 nautical mile radius around Windsor Castle and will come into effect from 27 January 2022. Any flights within the restricted area will require authorisation,” the Thames Valley Police said.
