A car blocked their way, and suddenly its driver, Ian Ball, pulled out a handgun. Ball shot Anne’s chauffeur and her security officer, Jim Beaton, as well as a nearby tabloid journalist who tried to ...

The event that rocked the Royal Family took place 51 years ago on March 20, 1974, when Princess Anne was accompanied by her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, and their bodyguard, Jim Beaton.