A cousin of Queen Elizabeth II was arrested Tuesday for 10 months for sexually assaulting a woman who was a guest at her ancestral castle in Scotland.
Simon Bowes-Lyon, the Earl of Strathmore, admitted to assaulting the 26-year-old woman in February 2020 in a room at Glamis Castle, which was the childhood home of the Queen’s late mother.
His victim still has nightmares about the 20-minute attack, in which Bowes-Lyon came into his room uninvited and palpated while trying to remove his nightgown, heard Dundee Sheriff Court, according to the BBC.
Bowes-Lyon, 34, who is a first cousin twice removed from the queen, pleaded guilty last month, saying he was “very ashamed of my actions that caused so much anguish to a guest in my home.”
“I didn’t think I was able to behave the way I did, but I had to face it and take responsibility,” he said.
Bowes-Lyon has also been on the sex offender registry for 10 years.
He had faced up to five years in prison, but got a lighter sentence after his lawyer, John Scott, reminded the court that the earl had shown “genuine remorse”.
Glamis Castle, near Dundee, in central Scotland, is the childhood home of the Queen’s late mother, who was born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and is where the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, was born, the BBC said.
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