
Queen installs royal 'panic rooms'
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Fears of a terrorist attack prompted Queen Elizabeth II to install “panic rooms” at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, a British paper reported. The high-security rooms have 18-inch-thick
steel walls and are designed to protect senior members of the royal family from poison gas, bomb attacks or assassination by terrorists, the Sunday Times reported. The shell of each room is
bullet-resistant and fire-retardant, and the rooms could withstand a mortar attack and possibly a direct hit by a light aircraft, the paper said. MORE TO READ