Riding Through My Life by Anne, Princess Royal

But it would be fair to say that if anybody was seriously intent on wiping one out, it would be very easy to do.' Though myriad threats were directed at the royal family over the years, she mused, 'perhaps your greatest danger is still the lone nut case who has just got enough to put it together. 'I mean, public figures have always been in danger to some degree.' the ever-unflappable Anne continued.

'And we had a fairly low-key discussion about the fact that I wasn't going to go anywhere, and wouldn't it be much better if he went away and we'd all forget about it,' Anne continued, before asking Phillips, 'It got slightly rougher, didn't it, at one stage?' I was scrupulously polite, 'cause I thought, silly to be too rude at that stage.' Recalling her exchange with Ball, Anne told Michael Parkinson later in the 1980s, 'We had a sort of discussion about where or where not we were going to go. Well, he said I had to go with him-I can't remember why.I said I didn't think I wanted to go. Ball pleaded guilty to attempted murder and kidnapping and was remanded to a mental health facility.Īll of the wounded men survived and each was honored by the Queen that September. Russell recalled getting the George Medal from Her Majesty, telling the Eastern Daily Press in 2006 that the monarch told him, ''The medal is from the queen of England, the thank you is from Anne's mother.'' In the Escort he'd rented under an assumed name, Ball had stashed Valium, two pairs of handcuffs and a ransom note addressed to the queen demanding £2 million. James' Park.ĭays later, the Marxist-Leninist Activist Revolutionary Movement sent a letter to authorities taking credit for Ball's brazen actions, but Scotland Yard determined he acted alone.

Detective Constable Peter Edmonds caught up to Ball and tackled him in St. Russell managed to land a punch to Ball's face, after which he took off running.

She craftily thought that might get Ball to abandon his position and as he ran toward the other side of the car, she got back in and closed the door.

Riding Through My Life by Anne, Princess Royal