Scottish Daily Mail

Prince of Windsor

Ex-champion boxer Naseem rents £1.4m home near Queen

- By James Tozer

WHO’S this out and a-bout? Former world boxing champion ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed strolls the streets of Windsor, although many fans might struggle to recognise him. The ex-sportsman, 48, is renting a £1.4million house in the area close to the Queen’s residence. An onlooker who saw Hamed carrying his shopping dressed in a tracksuit and Michael Jordan basketball T-shirt told The Sun: ‘It’s good to see Prince Naseem living in the shadows of proper royalty.’ The 5ft 4in Sheffield-born star held three featherwei­ght world title belts in the late 1990s. Reportedly worth about £50million, he was ranked number 22 on Forbes’ list of the world’s highestpai­d athletes in 1997. In 2006, the married father of three was jailed for 15 months after a collision in his £320,000 Mercedes McLaren left another driver with multiple injuries. He served just 16 weeks before being released with an electronic tag, though he was later stripped of his MBE.

 ?? ?? Sporting royalty: Naseem Hamed in Windsor. Inset, featherwei­ght in his heyday
Sporting royalty: Naseem Hamed in Windsor. Inset, featherwei­ght in his heyday

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