The Man Who Kidnapped a Princess for the British NHS

Ian Ball has been a patient of Broadmoor for forty years for a failed kidnap attempt.

Ian Ball has been an inmate of Broadmoor since 1974 when he committed an attempted kidnapping of one of Britain’s most famous women. The incident just yards from Buckingham Palace caused a media sensation and changed royal protocols forever. 

However, it did not go to plan and when Ball attempted to kidnap the Queen’s second child, Princess Anne, he got …