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Anne’s princess Widely known as the royalest working, but also proved that it had nerves of steel during the 1974 kidnapping attempt.
“I caught saying I didn’t want to come out of the car, and I wasn’t going to get out of the car,” Anne explained to enforce the law, back Smithsonian magazine. He also told police that his conversation with the attempt to kidnap was “very annoyed.”
The suspect, SavageArrested following the incident. He pleaded guilty to attempted murder and kidnapping charges and was sentenced to life at a mental health facility. He is currently being detained at Broadmoor Hospital, a high security psychiatric hospital. However, Ball still claims he was not involved.
“I’m an innocent man, Sane because I had a good reason to believe that the gunpowder had been pulled out of the bullets and another girl had been replaced with Princess Anne,” he told the Daily Mail in August 2025.
Keep scrolling back to look back on Anne’s attempt to kidnap:
Was Princess Anne kidnapped?
On the night of Tuesday 20, 1974, Anne and her husband at the time, Mark PhillipsWent back to Buckingham Palace after a charity event when Ford Escort overturned their car and forced them to a stop.
The escort driver, the ball, jumped out of the vehicle and started firing shots from a pistol. When Ball shot, and Chauffeur Anne also shot, Alex Call Ladderand Brian McConnellAnd nearby Daily Mail The journalist who tried to intervene, ordered the princess to leave the vehicle, Anne answered famously, “(probably not).”
Who is James Beaton?
Beaton was Anne’s personal police officer at the time. He was shot three times during the rebellion.
“He became a bang bang, and shot me in the chest,” Beaton remembered in March 2024 Statement to the BBC. “I tried to fire back with my gun. I lost the first shot and then jamed the gun.”
Beaton was also shot in his hand and abdomen while trying to defend the princess.
“I have a little bullet in the hand,” said the Inspector who has now retired to the BBC.
Who else was there?
Police constable Michael Hillswhich was patrolling nearby at the time of the attack, was the first to reach the scene. Ball shot him in the stomach, but hills still managed to call for a back as he collapsed.
Former boxer Ron russell Also happening to be in the area at the time and witnessing hills to be shot.
“I pulled over and heard a lot of rugging and grinding, which in my opinion was the general Rumpus. Eastern daily press in 2006.
Russell said he then hit a ball once in the back of his head and once “ten and square” on the jaw. “He went down and the police were everywhere,” he remembered.
What happened to Ian Ball?
After the kidnapping attempt, police found two pairs of handcuffs and a ransom letter referred to Queen Elizabeth II in a ball rental car. He told the Daily Mail In August 2025 the kidnapping attempt was supposed to be “fake.” Ball also claimed he was “more scared than it was.”
Back The guardianAnne Ransom’s Ball was a Ball Plan for £ 3 million and donated the money to the National Health Service for the treatment of psychiatric patients. During the appearance of 1980 on the British Talking Show Parkinson, Anne remembered being “very polite” to a ball until he ripped her dress.
“I thought it was silly to be too rude at that stage,” he explained. “The back of my dress split and that was his most dangerous moment. I lost my rag at that stage.”
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What happened after the kidnapping attempt?
Beaton, Hills, Callendar and McConnell were all in hospital after suffering, and all their wounds restored. To defend Beaton from Anne, the Queen George Cross awarded him, which recognizes acts of extreme courage conducted by civilians and military personnel when he was not in the presence of an enemy.
Hills and Russell were awarded the George Medal, while the Queen’s Medal of Bravery was awarded to Callender and McConnell.
Anne visited Beaton in hospital shortly after the attack.
“When Princess Anne came to see me in hospital, it was pretty funny because the staff said, ‘Come on, you have to put something on. Cover your chest and all the wounds and things,” Beaton told the BBC in March 2024. “I said,’ Oh, stop it. ‘ We said, you know, ‘(we) are glad we are all still alive and kicking, as it were.’ “
