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ANNE'S KIDNAP JUST A HOAX?
New Zealand Woman's Weekly
|August 18, 2025
The man who attempted to kidnap Princess Anne at gunpoint more than 50 years ago and shot several people in the process claims he is innocent of the crime because he thought a decoy had replaced her and there was no gunpowder in his bullets.
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Ian Ball, 77, spent 45 years in a psychiatric hospital after he shot and injured Anne's bodyguard, chauffeur, a police constable and a passerby in the abduction attempt in London in 1974. He ordered the princess out of her car but
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