Pensioner ‘phoned in bomb hoax on Buckingham Palace’ while King Charles recovered from cancer

A WOMAN will appear in court today charged with a bomb hoax on Buckingham Palace while the King recovered from cancer.

Diane Durham, 62, is alleged to have called police and threatened to blow up the 300-year-old royal residence.

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Diane Durham has been charged with a bomb hoax on Buckingham Palace[/caption]

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King Charles was not at the London building as he was recovering elsewhere[/caption]

Charges seen by The Sun accuse Durham of phoning with “the intention of inducing a false belief that a thing liable to explode or ignite was in Buckingham Palace”.

Durham is alleged to have made the hoax call on March 17, but Charles, 75, was not at the London building as he was recovering elsewhere.

But it was the day the palace revealed he would be joining D-Day events in Normandy.

Princess Anne, 74, and Sir Tim Laurence, 69, were on the grounds hosting a party for a veterans’ charity.

It is unclear if any action was taken at the palace.

But The Sun understands the Met passed details to West Yorkshire Police who arrested Durham at her £200,000 terraced home.

Durham, of Pudsey, will appear before Leeds magistrates.

If convicted she could be jailed for six months or fined.

The Met and Buckingham Palace declined to comment.