{"id":78094,"date":"2025-08-02T19:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78094"},"modified":"2025-08-02T19:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:30:39","slug":"gunman-who-tried-to-kidnap-princess-anne-freed-from-broadmoor-and-now-claims-it-was-all-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/02\/gunman-who-tried-to-kidnap-princess-anne-freed-from-broadmoor-and-now-claims-it-was-all-a-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman who tried to kidnap Princess Anne freed from Broadmoor \u2013 and now claims it was all a hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1JMdVs.img?w=534&amp;h=330&amp;m=6&amp;x=272&amp;y=180&amp;s=751&amp;d=404\" alt=\"princess anne.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The man who tried to kidnap\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/princess-anne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Princess Anne<\/a> at gunpoint nearly 50 years ago has been quietly released from a high-security mental hospital and is now waging a bizarre campaign to clear his name.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/gunman-who-tried-to-kidnap-princess-anne-freed-from-broadmoor-and-now-claims-it-was-all-a-hoax\/ar-AA1JM2v8?ocid=BingNewsSerp\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The man who tried to kidnap\u00a0Princess Anne at gunpoint nearly 50 years ago has been quietly released from a high-security mental hospital&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ian-Ball.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78096,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78094\/revisions\/78096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}