This Is The Last Royal You Would Guess Has A Criminal Record

British royal family news asks, can you name the current senior royal who has a criminal record? If you guessed Princess Anne, give yourself a pat on the back. Anne is a celebrated b*****, a woman who foiled her own kidnapping and is known as the hardest working royal. So, in a twisted way, it makes sense that it would be salty Anne who got in trouble with the law.

Craig Brown’s new biography of Queen Elizabeth II, Q: A Voyage Around The Queen, reveals the story of Anne’s illegality, and we’re here for it.

Princess Anne Has A Record

Canines have been as much a part of the royal history as barbeques at Balmoral and Christmas pranks. The late Queen Elizabeth was known for her love of Corgis, and her daughter Anne inherited her mother’s love of pups.

According to Brown it was one of Princess Anne’s dogs, Dotty, that is behind the royal having a criminal record.

Royal Family News – Princess Anne’s Naughty Dog

In April 2002, The Princess Royal took Dotty for a walk in Windsor Great Park where the dog “spotted two little boys, aged 12 and 7, racing along on their bicycles.” Brown wrote that the frisky dog immediately chased the kids.

“Confronted by this barking bull terrier, both boys fell off their bikes. Princess Anne yelled, but Dotty carried on, biting one boy on his leg and the collar bone and scratching the other on his leg, his back and his arm.” Ruh roh.

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Royal News – Dotty Causes Disturbance

The book states that the children “were rushed to hospital ‘in a traumatized state,’ though neither needed stitches.” The parents of the boys took Anne and her husband, Tim Laurence, to court over the attack with the result being that the couple were “prosecuted for being in charge of a dog that was dangerously out of control in a public place” in Slough Magistrates Court in November 2002.

Although Dotty had her own character witness “a dog psychologist named Dr. Roger Mugford … The Queen had consulted the doctor on canine matters since 1984” she was found guilty.

He called Dotty a “totally placid, playful, tolerant dog” and said she “could be trained not to repeat the offense.” But the damage was done and Princess Anne “was fined £500 and ordered to pay £250 compensation to each of the boys.”

And so it is that Anne and Dotty were deemed to have contributed to the children’s and subsequent fear of “dogs entirely.”

Tell us royal fans, do you think that Anne’s punishment fit the crime?

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