-Britain's royal palaces are family homes like no other.

Historic... -These buildings speak to our extraordinary royal past.

...secure... -Palaces are fortresses.

They're super safe.

You're protected.

-...and deeply secretive.

-It is the poshest, most regal gated community in the world.

-In this new series, we sneak inside more of Britain's extraordinary royal homes to eavesdrop on palace secrets... -Suddenly, now, to hear it in full verse from the Princess of Wales was quite extraordinary.

-...uncover mysterious treasures... -They were shrouded in secrecy, both outside the walls of the palace and even inside.

-...reveal hidden royal residences the public know nothing about... -It is absolutely not for public access, and therefore we only get a glimpse of it.

-...and unearth the stories of the most dramatic palace moments.

-He said, "If you see this, I will be dead.

I'm going to kill the Queen."

-These are the extraordinary and brand-new secrets of the royal palaces.

♪♪ This time, we reveal some of the most private of palace secrets, as the royals raced to Balmoral to reach the Queen in her last moments... -There was significant confusion during that day about who was invited and who wasn't invited.

-...the Windsor crime that saw a royal charged and in court for the first time in four centuries... -Suddenly, who arrives?

Not just anybody.

It's the daughter of the Queen.

-...how the mighty King who built the tower came to the messiest of ends.

-The sarcophagus was too small.

So when they tried to stuff him in, his body actually burst.

-...and the mystery gift to Buckingham Palace that just keeps on giving.

-Secrets keep coming.

Will we ever know exactly what first arrived in that black tin trunk?

♪♪ -But first to Windsor and the castle's Great Park, which covers nearly 5,000 acres of carefully managed woodland and is teeming with wildlife.

It's also home to many members of Britain's most rarefied species, the royal family.

-So, for those who don't know Windsor Park, in some ways you can imagine it as sort of the poshest, most regal gated community in the world.

-Charles and Camilla have an extensive suite of rooms in the castle itself, whilst Adelaide Cottage, home to Wills and Kate, is just a 10-minute walk away.

Harry and Meghan's former home, Frogmore Cottage, is also nearby.

And then there's perhaps the most sought-after residence of all.

-So just three miles from the castle itself, you have Royal Lodge.

-A 30-room, 7-bedroom, beautiful white-stucco Georgian mansion.

It's Grade II listed, and it has an east wing, a west wing.

It has a huge amount of lands and gardens surrounding it.

It's got its own swimming pool, and it's beautiful.

-But in 2016, the royal who calls the lodge home found himself on the wrong side of the palace gates and wasn't amused.

Royal Lodge has been home to Prince Andrew and, quite unusually, his ex-wife since 2003.

-So, Andrew and Fergie have been living together for the best part of the last 25 years as a divorced man and wife.

They occupy separate parts of Royal Lodge.

-As Fergie likes to say, they are the most happily divorced couple in the world.

It's big enough for them to lead separate lives.

-But also, it's not just the house that suits Andrew so much.

It's the fact that the house is within the ring of steel that Windsor Great Park offers to him.

He has that security 24 hours a day, and, of course, he's away from prying eyes.

There are no long lenses that can get him in Royal Lodge.

-Although Windsor Great Park is part of the Crown Estate, over the years, Prince Andrew has developed a reputation for treating it as his own private fiefdom.

-So, Prince Andrew is a man in a hurry.

He is definitely used to getting what he wants, and he wants it now.

And certainly this extends to his driving.

-In fact, one worker has said that Andrew has a nickname within Windsor Castle and the grounds and the estate, which is "Toad of Toad Hall."

-Because he would be driving around in his top-of-the-range cars.

Beep, beep.

Get out of the way!

Get out of the way!

Just like "Toad of Toad Hall."

-But late one Sunday evening, a rare malfunction in the park's security system left the impatient prince locked out of his own hall... um, lodge.

-Andrew is a man who liked to drive himself wherever he was going.

And he had become accustomed to using a particular entry into the park, which was close to Royal Lodge.

-And the sensor on the gate, which was designed to kind of keep deer out, wasn't working.

And so he was trying to get through the gate, and it wasn't opening.

-Now, when you look at the map, it's quite clear that what most people would have done is thought, "Okay, well, I'll go in the other entrance," which would have been another five minutes on his journey.

-And he has a decision to make.

He can either take a very short detour round to the next gate or he can carry on through.

[ Chuckles ] Guess which one he chose?

-Reportedly, Andrew simply put his foot down and drove straight on.

[ Metal crunching ] -Of course, it was a very stupid decision because he not only did considerable damage to the gates, but he did considerable damage to his own car.

[ Metal crunching ] -Andrew has never publicly admitted damaging the gates or his Range Rover, but reports suggest that he had to pay thousands to fix the vehicle, while leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab for the gates.

-I think many people have assumed over the years that the value of money is perhaps something that Andrew doesn't have a very firm grasp on, and I think this story underlines that.

-The Crown Estate, who ran Windsor Great Park on behalf of the then Queen, Queen Elizabeth, had to pay thousands of pounds to repair that gate, all because one man wouldn't take a very short detour home.

-He wasn't prosecuted, and I do wonder whether, if I had done it or another ordinary member of the public had decided to drive at those gates and cause a lot of damage, whether we would have got off scot-free.

-From an unexpected expense to an expensive surprise that brought even more sparkle to Buckingham Palace.

The royal family receives more than 1,000 letters and packages every week at the palace alone.

But none have been more mysterious than the large parcel that arrived addressed to future Queen Mother Queen Elizabeth at the height of the war.

-It's 1943, and a large black tin trunk turns up with the initials "M.H.G."

on it.

♪♪ ♪♪ -Inside the trunk was an incredible treasure trove of over 60 pieces of exquisite and hugely expensive jewelry.

-Everything in this trunk was truly spectacular.

-There were tiaras, necklaces, earrings, bandeaus, um, rings.

-Brooches, multiple-strand necklaces, rubies, sapphires, diamonds, and even black diamonds.

-There were pieces in there that had belonged to Marie Antoinette, to Empress Josephine, and even to Catherine the Great.

This was the jewelry collection of dreams.

-Despite already having access to one of the world's most impressive jewelry collections, Queen Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother, was delighted with her new treasures.

-She writes to her mother-in-law, Queen Mary, and she says, um, "I am so excited to receive this gift for myself, especially as I do so admire beautiful stones with all my heart."

-But the timing of receiving such a lavish gift was decidedly off.

-This was a time of war.

The nation was in turmoil.

There was extraordinary poverty being experienced.

-People are surviving on rations, and, of course, turning up, showing off in these incredible, glitzy, glamorous jewels was not what she wanted.

-And so the palace hatched a plan.

The jewels would be kept under wraps until after the war, and then slowly drip-fed into the public consciousness over the coming decades.

Amongst the first -- a pair of earrings.

-These are the chandelier earrings.

Now, they're called chandelier earrings because that's what they look like.

-And these are spectacular and sparkly, mainly because they show off nearly every single type of cut you can have.

You have baguette, you have pear-shaped, you have baton -- it's all there.

And, oh, my goodness, it looks dazzling.

-The Queen Mother Elizabeth, she didn't actually enjoy wearing them, but she gave them to her daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth II, as a wedding gift in 1947.

We know that Elizabeth II loved them.

She's pictured wearing them multiple times, but not until 1951, because it was at that point she actually got her ears pierced.

-The Queen Mum may not have been keen on the earrings, but she had no such qualms when it came to some of the larger items which she wore time and again.

-Two knock-out pieces from this collection which the Queen Mother loved wearing together were a platinum-and-diamond necklace and tiara.

-And they're very distinctive in their design.

On the tiara, you can see this honeycomb of diamonds that also repeats in the necklace, exquisitely worked.

-It's basically an enormous diamond bib, but it hides a secret.

It's five strands, and the top strands can be separated from the lower strands, enabling different sizes of necklace to be used, depending on the occasion.

-Because the origins of these mystery jewels were shrouded in secrecy, rumors began to grow about their provenance.

-Pieces only turned up on occasion, rarely, but without great fanfare and without great explanation.

There's been much speculation about the origins of these pieces and who designed them.

Many of them, of course, are wrong.

♪♪ -Later, we'll find out exactly where those mysterious jewels came from.

-The clue lies in the tin trunk they arrived in.

-Also coming up -- the Windsor crime that put Princess Anne in the dock... -The focus is Slough Magistrates Court, when suddenly, who arrives?

Not just anybody.

It's the daughter of the Queen.

-...and the Crown's least-well-known palace.

Who's heard of Bagshot as a royal residence?

It's incredible that we've missed it.

♪♪ ♪♪ -Balmoral, Scotland, on the 8th of September, 2022.

News of the Queen's death here shocked the world and sent the country into mourning.

-It's a place that she loved above all her royal homes.

So I think there was a significance that she managed to get up to Scotland in the first place and to be there for those final weeks of her life.

-I personally think that the Queen chose to die at Balmoral.

Balmoral was one of her favorite places on Earth.

-In the Queen's final hours, unknown to the nation, a massive countrywide plan swung into action.

-For the death of the Queen, it sparked two separate operations.

So there was Operation London Bridge, and that's the overarching plan of what happens when the Queen dies.

-It encompasses the official mourning, the whole process, which takes place from the moment of the Queen's death until the moment of her burial.

-The second part of the operation covered the practicalities of where the Queen died.

-Operation Unicorn is what happens if the Queen dies in Scotland.

And that's the plan of how the Queen's body is brought back to London and where it lays in state and for how long.

-These top-secret plans had been in place for decades and were constantly updated to ensure that when the time came, everything from the mourning period to the state funeral went like clockwork.

-I mean, monarchy is as much about theater and drama, you know, in life as in -- as in death.

And the Queen was very much aware that her death was gonna be an epic moment in our national story.

And so it proved.

-But on the day of her death itself, we now know one crucial element slipped through the net -- getting the Queen's family to her side in time.

Rumors of her failing health were triggered by events in a palace far from Balmoral... [ Bell tolling ] ...the Palace of Westminster.

-So it was a Thursday afternoon around 12:10 when notes started to be passed in Parliament and the people reading the notes looked pretty shocked.

-13 minutes after those notes were being passed, we did get a statement from Buckingham Palace saying that they were very concerned about the health of the Queen.

For the Queen's health to be a matter of great concern, immediately one knows that that's code for she is very, very poorly.

-In addition to that, we had the announcements the members of her family would be making their way to her side.

And I think that's when we really knew that, gosh, something is happening here.

-Behind the scenes, the race had begun for the rest of the royal family to get to Balmoral in time.

Both of the Queen's eldest children, Charles and Anne, were already north of the border, but everyone else was in the south.

-There was significant confusion during that day about how the royals were going to get to the Queen's bedside and who was invited and who wasn't invited.

[ Siren wailing ] We know that Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, Prince Andrew, and Prince William all got to the North London RAF base, Northolt, where they were going to take a plane up to Balmoral.

-With the Queen's health now failing fast, it was crucial the plane left immediately, but it seems a family rift was still causing major issues.

-Now, they get there, and they sort of hang around, essentially.

There's no real other way to put it.

They're on the ground for an hour or more, and nobody is really sure why.

-The plane was due to take off from RAF Northolt outside London at, I think, 1:30, but it sat on the tarmac for about 40 to 50 minutes.

Now, why was that?

Were they waiting, perhaps, for Prince Harry?

-What was the plan for Harry?

♪♪ -Later, we'll reveal the tragic outcome of that long delay on the tarmac.

♪♪ Intrigue and gossip are part and parcel of being a member of the royal family.

But it also extends to palaces, including one huge royal residence that has retained an air of mystery since the day it was built.

-Who's heard of Bagshot as a royal residence?

It flies under the radar, but in the way that a B-52 would fly under the radar.

It's incredible that we've missed it.

-The reason that you may not know Bagshot Park is that even if you drove past it reasonably close, it's hidden from view.

-Tucked away behind acres of parkland on the borders of Surrey and Berkshire, Bagshot Park is a sprawling 120-room Victorian mansion that's now the grace-and-favor home of Prince Edward and his family.

-Dear old Edward, once the Earl of Wessex and now the lofty heights of the Duke of Edinburgh, and he has indeed been sitting pretty comfortably for a few decades now.

-This junior member of the royal family has bagged this giant, 120-room residence, and it completely defies expectations.

And that's why it's really one of the secrets amongst the royal palaces.

-Although this vast mansion has royal links back to the 17th century, it had far humbler beginnings than most palaces, as it started life as a mere hunting lodge.

But in the 1870s, Queen Victoria decided the hunting park was the perfect location to house her third and favorite son.

-Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught -- he went on to be the Governor General of Canada at a time when the British Empire was at its height.

And so a house for a man like this had to be built on a grand scale.

It is archetypal Victorian.

It's red brick.

It's in the Gothic style, which was very fashionable.

And it screams power and solidity.

-Queen Victoria and her son may have been delighted with Bagshot's Gothic glory, but not everyone was as amused.

-In the 20th century, Nikolaus Pevsner, who made it his life's work to grade buildings all over the UK, thought that Bagshot was bad, purposeless, and ugly.

-It's hard to know whether Mr. Pevsner was right, as very few people get past the gates into the estate, let alone into the house itself.

What we do know is that Prince Arthur enjoyed the splendid seclusion of his vast palace until his death in 1942, and that the late Queen gifted the house to Prince Edward in 1998, the year before his wedding to Sophie.

-Well, Edward got quite a deal.

His mother gave him a 50-year lease with some pretty juicy terms for 120-room house.

So, you know who's gonna complain at that?

-Just like his royal predecessor, Prince Edward is happy to live hidden away at Bagshot and has even secured the estate for his future heirs.

-There's nothing like a royal wedding for a gift or two to be given, in general, in the form of bricks and mortar and land, and Edward's no exception.

He's now extended the lease.

So lucky children, that's all I can say.

♪♪ -800 years before Bagshot was built, the man responsible for some of Britain's greatest palaces came to a very unroyal end.

♪♪ -William the Conqueror, the invader of England, the victor of Hastings, the terror of so many of the English, he was a great builder of palaces -- Windsor Castle.

the Tower of London.

But he wasn't buried in a palace.

He wasn't even buried in England.

At the end of William's life, he's weary of England, spends most of his time in Normandy.

He also becomes very overweight.

When he dies on campaign in 1087, chaos ensues.

The minute he died, William's nobles rushed off to secure their lands.

They'd been given their lands by William.

They wanted to make sure they kept them.

William's servants were no kinder.

They took everything -- furniture, plates, dishes.

They took his belongings.

And then they stripped him.

They took all his clothes and left him half-naked on the floor.

The great, terrifying King was just a body left naked by everyone.

A low-level knight organized the funeral, and William arrived in the church.

But then there was a fire, and everyone there rushed off to put out the fire.

The only people left were the monks conducting the funeral.

Then, finally, things seem calm.

They were going to put the King in the sarcophagus, that great, solemn moment.

But William was rather large, and the sarcophagus was too small.

So when they tried to stuff him in, his body actually burst, his bowels burst, and a terrible smell filled everyone's noses.

So they rushed the rest of the ceremony at breakneck speed to try and get it done before the smell got too bad.

William, the great conqueror, William I who invaded England, was at the end a man buried in the most undignified way.

-Still to come -- we reveal the identity of the mystery benefactor behind Buckingham Palace's most glittering gift... -She was a voracious jewelry collector and a collector of the very best.

-...expose the palace with a deadly décor... -He looked at the brilliant green of the wallpaper and said, "It's arsenic!"

-...and uncover what really happened on the day the Queen died.

-It's heartbreaking to find out that a member of your family has died by a news flash on your phone.

♪♪ -Buckingham Palace, 2012.

Almost 70 years after a mysterious treasure box of jewels arrived at the palace, the truth about its origins finally became widely known.

-The clue as to where these jewels came from lies in the tin trunk they arrived in.

And that monogram, "M.H.G."

-- it stands for Dame Margaret Helen Greville.

Who was she?

She was a stinking-rich socialite.

She had come from humble stock, but had elevated herself by throwing extravagant parties and marrying into the nobility.

-Margaret was known at the time as one of the greatest society hostesses, mixing with the rich and famous and the royal.

She described the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, as the daughter she never had.

-Dame Margaret had a passion for very expensive jewelry, and when she died, a lack of heirs meant she left her most precious pieces to the Queen Mother.

-She was a voracious jewelry collector and a collector of the very best.

There is absolutely no doubt that the jewelry collection she left to Elizabeth was amongst the very best there ever has been.

-And much like the Queen Mum in her time, today's royals are continuing to enjoy some of the collection's spectacular pieces.

-The honeycomb tiara and necklace set is constantly being worn by Queen Camilla.

She wears it with such aplomb.

-We've also seen Princess Catherine wearing the Greville chandelier earrings to the Prince of Jordan's wedding in 2023.

-Despite the lineage of the jewels finally being confirmed, it seems old habits die hard, and the royals still aren't ready to show us the full extent of Dame Margaret's bequest.

-Secrets keep coming.

In 2018, Princess Eugenie wore this extraordinary tiara from the Greville bequest.

The whole piece is estimated to be worth £10 million.

And yet it was in the Greville bequest, and we didn't know about it.

-Although we know an awful lot more than we did, the full extent of the contents of what is in that Greville trunk is still yet to be revealed.

-Will we ever know exactly what first arrived in that black tin trunk?

♪♪ -Another royal mystery played out six decades earlier at a different palace, but this one had a far deadlier potential.

♪♪ ♪♪ -In 1879, the artist Mr. Cobbold was staying at a cottage on the Osborne House estate because he had a large amount of work to finish very swiftly for Queen Victoria.

He loved his cozy bedroom in the cottage, but almost immediately when he went to bed he started feeling violently ill.

He said he felt as if his insides, his bowels, were being twisted like a towel.

And all night, he was so ill he thought he was going to die.

He said the only reason why he didn't die was because he'd drunk a little bit of brandy before going to bed.

In the morning, he was staggering like a drunken man.

And when the maid brought him his tea, he had an epiphany.

He looked at the brilliant green of the wallpaper and said, "It's arsenic!"

He had been poisoned by arsenic in the wallpaper.

Now, the Victorians loved arsenic.

They loved the color green it produced.

It was in wallpaper.

It was in the stems of artificial flowers.

It was everywhere.

There was a joke that it was in the green gowns that ladies wore for balls so when they were twirling, they were flinging arsenic poison all over their suitors.

Mr. Cobbold went to see the Queen, and she was not happy because he was late.

He said, "Well, I'm late because I was poisoned with arsenic."

The Queen, he said, was quite startled and ordered a strip of wallpaper to be taken from the cottage and tested.

It came back positive.

The Queen was shocked and ordered that all the green wallpaper in Osborne House be torn down.

Her beautiful retreat, her wonderful private palace, had become a killer house, a poison palace.

♪♪ -Queen Victoria's other royal retreat, Balmoral Castle, has also had its fair share of royal dramas, but none has been more poignant than the passing of the late Queen Elizabeth.

By 12:50 p.m. on September the 8th, 2022, the Queen's family had been told her health was fading fast.

-Everybody had to very, very quickly -- as quickly as they could -- make their way to Balmoral.

There was a real urgency in the situation.

-Although time was clearly running out, the royal jet didn't take off until almost 2:30.

And crucially, when it did, Prince Harry wasn't on board.

-After a delay on the tarmac of probably about an hour, Prince Andrew and Prince William, Edward, and Sophie were unwilling to wait any longer.

So that plane took off from RAF Northolt and arrived about an hour later in Aberdeenshire.

And then they left and drove to Balmoral.

-The reason for the delay has never been officially explained.

But Prince Harry has since offered up his version of events.

-We know from Harry's book that he was trying to get hold of William to find out what the plans were, that apparently William wasn't responding to his messages.

So Harry says that whilst he was preparing to get to Northolt, he had a phone call from his father, Prince Charles, to say that he didn't want Meghan in Balmoral.

-Needless to say, Prince Harry was absolutely furious about this and took it as a personal snub and a personal slight against himself and Meghan.

And that really delayed him traveling up to Scotland.

-Whatever the reason for the hold-up, by the time the first royal plane landed, it was too late.

The Queen passed away at 3:10 p.m., when most of her family were still in transit.

-Charles and Anne were the only ones at the Queen's side when she died.

William, Andrew, and Edward received the news while they were in mid-air.

The Prince of Wales put a call in, and they picked it up, so they knew before they landed at Aberdeen airport that the Queen was dead.

♪♪ -Harry, meanwhile, had yet to leave London, finally lifting off from Luton Airport in a private jet around 5:30 p.m. -We know from Harry's book that as the private plane he had chartered came in to land at Aberdeen airport, he turned his phone on.

He said it started pinging over and over that he had a message from Meghan saying, "Call me as soon as you land."

He assumed that that was bad news, actually went onto the BBC's website and saw online that his grandmother had died.

-Which is actually quite heartbreaking to think about it, to find out that a member of your family has died by a news flash on your phone.

-I suspect that Harry's sense of rejection and isolation that we know he already had within the royal family was made a lot worse that day.

-The public announcement of the Queen's death finally ran at 6:30 p.m., more than three hours after the actual event.

-So during that afternoon, there's an extraordinary interregnum in many ways where the Queen has died.

Charles has become the King, because, of course, that happens automatically, but very, very few people knew that that had happened.

-One of King Charles's first state appearances as our new monarch was at his mother's funeral 10 days later.

But even as he was still getting used to his new role, he, just like Queen Elizabeth, will have been expected to begin planning the details of his own version of Operation London Bridge.

♪♪ Still to come -- the shambolic escape from a royal residence that ultimately led to a king losing his head... -The great escape, the great plan, had been really all very "Fawlty Towers."

-...and Windsor Castle witnesses the crime that landed a princess in the wrong sort of court.

-Anne held her hands up to this offense, said that, yes, she pleaded guilty to it.

♪♪ ♪♪ -The Tower of London has seen many royals come and go, and often lose their heads in the process.

But one king might have avoided his grisly end altogether had he not been quite so desperate to escape.

♪♪ ♪♪ -King Charles I had lost the English Civil War, and he was imprisoned at Hampton Court Palace and allowed quite a lot of freedom.

But when he realized that he wasn't going to get back onto the throne, he decided to try and flee to Europe.

So he and accomplices went down to the Isle of Wight to Carisbrooke Castle, a royal residence since the medieval times, because they thought that the governor of Carisbrooke Castle would be more sympathetic to the King.

Instead, when Charles arrived at the castle, the governor wrote to Parliament saying, "I've got the King."

Charles was back in prison all over again.

♪♪ But he wasn't going to take this lying down.

Plots were hatched.

Royalist spies on the Isle of Wight made plans to get Charles out.

First idea, what they were going to do was Charles is going to escape out of the window and descend down the side of the castle like a commando on a silken cord.

Unfortunately, it went wrong.

He got completely stuck in the window.

They hadn't really rehearsed it and couldn't go forward, couldn't go back, but Charles was not deterred.

A bigger, better plot was made by which they were going to melt down those pesky iron bars with acid and saw them off with a hacksaw.

So acid and a hacksaw were smuggled into the castle.

Charles was busily melting down the bars, sawing them off, when in walks the governor, and he says, "I heard you were going away."

Charles laughed, but he knew he'd been rumbled.

The great escape, the great plan, had been really all very faulty towers.

Charles is imprisoned in Carisbrooke Castle for the rest of 1648, and in early 1649 he was taken to London, put on trial, and executed.

Charles I attempt to use his island getaway to getaway had failed, and he paid with it with his head.

-It would be nearly 400 years before another royal would be in court on a charge, though in circumstances rather different to the civil war of the 1600s.

The setting was the grounds of Windsor Castle, visited by 5 million people a year and with extensive parklands, award-winning gardens, ancient woodlands and forest trails, it makes for a popular family excursion.

-So obviously the attraction of going for the day at Windsor Great Park isn't just that it's such a beautiful place for a day out, it's also the royal connections and the chance that you might see a member of the royal family.

-But in April 2002, one family outing to Windsor ended in a disaster that left a senior royal in the dock.

-So on this particular day in 2002, we've got this young family with their two sons, 12 year old and seven year old, bombing up and down the long mile on their bicycles.

Typical family day out.

-Also enjoying Windsor Great Park that day was Princess Anne, who was out with her dogs, including Dotty, who is an English bull terrier.

-Princess Anne has always been very partial to bull terriers, and Dotty was a young bull terrier.

-Just like the Princess Royal, bull terriers are known for their uncompromising nature, and on this particular day, Dotty decided to be particularly strong-willed.

-Princess Anne and her husband, Timothy Laurence, were getting busy putting the dogs back in the car, and then things took a turn for the worse.

The two boys came speeding by on their bike and Dotty just lost control.

Suddenly, the dog bolted and ran after the boys and effectively attacked them.

-Before Princess Anne had a chance to pull her off, Dotty had caused injury to both boys.

-The 12 year old was bitten around his collarbone, and the seven year old sustained, you know, reasonably serious scratches.

And I think that it must have been quite a frightening event for both boys.

- Buckingham Palace has confirmed Princess Anne and her husband have received a court summons.

-The royal dog owners were subsequently charged under the Dangerous Dogs Act.

The maximum penalty being a prison sentence and the possibility that the dog involved is destroyed.

-So picture the scene -- The focus is Slough Magistrates Court.

It's not the Old Bailey, it's a regional kind of sleepy, magistrates court.

It's kind of dealing with things like driving offenses and quite sort of low-level misdemeanors, when suddenly who arrives?

Not just anybody.

It's the daughter of the Queen, Princess Anne.

-Anne arrived at the magistrate's court with her husband and children, Zara and Peter, for moral support.

-So this wasn't a long and drawn out affair.

It was a pretty open and shut case.

She took full responsibility for her dog, Dotty, and what that dog did.

-Anne held her hands up to this offense, said that yes, she was not in control of her dog, pleaded guilty to it, and of course, in doing so would have been hoping for leniency from the judge.

-The judge ordered Princess Anne to pay £500 in compensation to the victims, and £648 in fines and court costs.

But what of Dotty?

The consequences for her were potentially fatal.

-Evidence was heard from the renowned animal psychologist, Dr. Roger Mugford, who said what Dotty needed was proper training and that he was prepared to offer that kind of training, which would mean that she would probably never commit an offense like that again.

-So the judge said that she thought dogs could benefit family life.

She did say that more care had to be taken in the future with Dotty.

-Dotty may have had a reprieve, but her behavior meant Princess Anne had the mortifying pleasure of becoming the first royal convicted in court since the unfortunate Charles I.

Next time, Diana reveals the truth about her marriage to her palace staff.

-Said, "Do you know about my husband's relationship with Camilla?"

-We expose a Windsor security breach that threatened the Queen.

-He carried a crossbow.

He was wandering around trying to find a way in to the Queen's private apartments.

-And we discover the Royal Lodge is the perfect place to hide a scandal-hit royal.

-So if you really want to shut yourself away from the world, you could hardly do better.

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