It is told in 1999 book The Warwickshire Scandal, by author Elizabeth Hamilton.Īged just 17, Harriet had been invited to join the Prince and Princess of Wales - the future Queen Alexandra - at Sandringham in 1865.

The Princess Royal was also convicted of speeding in her Bentley, after admitting driving at 93mph in a 70mph zone in Gloucestershire.īut the saga involving Edward VII was far more dramatic. She was fined £500, and ordered to pay £250 in compensation and £148 in costs. Her three-year-old English bull terrier, called Dotty, attacked the children in Windsor Great Park. She pleaded guilty to a charge under the Dangerous Dogs Act. Princess Anne became the first member of the current royal family to be convicted of a criminal offence, after one of her dogs bit two children in 2002. There has been no shortage of legal controversy surrounding the royals. The Prince's subsequent insistence in the witness box that there had not been any impropriety contributed to an insanity ruling, meaning that Harriet spent the rest of her life locked up in an asylum. His evidence, given in 1871, was on the nature of his relationship with close lady friend Harriet Mordaunt (above), who confessed to her husband that she had committed adultery with the Prince - as well as other high-flying menįurious at the apparent betrayal, he filed divorce proceedings, prompting Harriet's father to try to stop the action in court by claiming his daughter was insane.

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