Simon Jenkins says that, apart from two fines paid by Princess Anne (one for an uncontrolled dog, the other for speeding), researchers into royal quarrels with the law have to go back to Charles I and Mary, Queen of Scots (Stripped of finery, detained by police as an ordinary citizen: now Andrew enters a new era – and Britain too, 19 February).
Leaving aside less serious brushes with law, often over property rights, there are two cases of major legal significance that he fails to note – in neither were the consequences confined within the British Isles.
