A MAN who sent hundreds of letters to Queen Elizabeth II has been found dead in a park near Buckingham Palace, as long as three years after his death.

The body of Robert James Moore, whose obsession with the royal family drove him to set up camp within view of the London palace, was unearthed by a tree trimmer as many as three years after his death.

The details of Mr Moore's obsessive interest in the British monarchy emerged at a coroner's investigation last week.

Mr Moore, who is thought to have died in his late sixties, addressed hundreds of "strange and offensive" packages to the Queen over a period of 15 years.



Some of the "peculiar" letters numbered over 600 pages and included obscene photographs. Other packages falsely claimed to contain harmful substances.

Mr Moore arrived in Britain in 2007 from the US, where he previously was in trouble with police for drink driving.

Detective Sargeant Mike West told the coroner that Mr Moore "had a fixation with the queen and the royal family, which takes us back to the place where he was discovered."

"You have actually stated that there would not be a better place to remain undiscovered with view of the Queen's primary residence than the [parkland]," Sargeant West added.

Mr Moore's makeshift camp, some 91 metres from the entrance to Buckingham Palace, went unnoticed until March 15, when a gardener was sent to work in the area.

After clearing some leaves, the worker found Mr Moore's skeleton surrounded by vodka bottles. A US passport that matched a copy once sent to the Queen was found in the dead man's pocket.

The amount of leaves that were found covering Mr Moore's body suggested that the corpse had not been found for two to three years, Sargeant West said.

Initial police findings ruled Mr Moore's death suspicious, but an autopsy found no evidence of trauma or injury.



The cause of his death was ruled as "unascertained".

Originally published as Royal fan's body outside palace for years