Woman held after hitting duke’s car
A WOMAN ran up to Prince Andrew’s Range Rover, banged on the window and called his name in another royal security scare yesterday.
Photographs showed her hammering on the glass as the Queen’s son sat awkwardly in the driving seat in Windsor.
Police arrested a 50-year-old woman on suspicion of using threatening or abusive behaviour towards the Duke of York.
Andrew was making the short drive from his Royal Lodge home to Windsor Castle to go horse riding when the woman appeared as he stopped at a junction.
A witness said: ‘This woman literally appeared out of nowhere and started banging on the window, shouting, “Andrew, Andrew!” The police got there very quickly afterwards and took the woman away.
‘I don’t think she was trying to attack him or anything, but she certainly got his attention.’
Thames Valley Police said: ‘A 50-year-old woman, of no fixed abode, has been arrested. She remains in custody.’
Neither Buckingham Palace nor a spokesman for the prince would comment. It is the third security incident involving Andrew, 61, in recent months.
In April, a woman was arrested after she was allowed into his house by officers after claiming she had a lunch appointment. She was taken into custody but later released to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act. In May, a man and a woman were arrested in the grounds of Royal Lodge.