Princess Anne’s attempted kidnapper has professed his innocence — saying he “was more scared” than the royal during the terrifying ordeal more than five decades ago. Ian Ball, the gunman who shot ...

Ian Ball, who was released from a psychiatric hospital in 2019, maintains his innocence in a new interview Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty; Ian Ball, the man who attempted to kidnap ...

Ian Ball, the man who attempted to kidnap Princess Anne for ransom in 1974, claims he is an "innocent" man a new interview published in August 2025 The kidnapping was meant to be a "hoax," with Ball ...