In 1974, a violent scene played out on Buckingham Palace’s doorstep, with a high-profile royal lucky to escape with her life.
Erin Doherty portraying Princess Anne in a scene from the third season of The Crown and Princess Anne arriving at the Royal Opera House in London in 1968. Pictures: Netflix, APPrincess Anne and her then-husband Mark Phillips, a captain in the British army, were on their way home from a charity film screening when a white Ford Escort overtook their chauffeur on the mall, forcing him to stop about 200 yards away from Buckingham Palace.
Six more men faced off against Ball. Chauffeur Alexander Callender, one of the Queen’s drivers, stepped out to confront the gunman and was shot in the chest. “We had a sort of discussion about where or where not we were going to go,” Princess Anne said, recalling her exchange with Ball in an interview with Michael Parkinson in the 1980s.“I said I didn’t think I wanted to go … 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.”
Princess Anne talks with Brian McConnell in London's St. George's Hospital, after he was shot during the kidnap attempt. Picture: AP“But we are deeply disturbed and concerned about those who got injured.” These articles – except the bullet-holed diary – were found by police in the possession of Ian Ball. Picture: PA Images via Getty ImagesThe papers reported that one line in the rambling letter read, “Anne will be shot dead.”
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