I wonder if they had biscuits with their tea

From The Scotsman:

FOR almost 13 hours, the woman had been held hostage at knifepoint by a convicted sex attacker who repeatedly raped her as police stood outside his home trying to negotiate her release.

But when Sean McKay fell asleep, his terrified victim finally saw the chance to end her horrific ordeal.

She could not risk wakening him by calling out to the police, but she was able to scrawl the message, "Force the door", in condensation on a window for officers to see. She then rushed to the front door, and began to haul at the furniture that McKay had stacked behind it as a barricade, while police pushed from the other side. The officers managed to pull her to safety just as McKay woke up, dashed into the hall and tried to grab her.

I do wonder if the Scottish police would have stood around all night drinking tea and "negotiating" if the woman had been a member of the royal family rather than a "foreign national".