A relative of Queen Elizabeth II of England was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 months in prison for sexual assault on a woman in his family castle in Scotland.
Simon Bowes-Lyon, Earl of Strathmore, had admitted assault in a bedroom of his Glamis Castle in February 2020.
Bowes-Lyon, 34, who is first queen of the queen, he pleaded guilty last month, saying he was “very ashamed of my actions, which have caused so much to a guest at my house.”
“I didn’t think I was capable of behaving the way I did, but I have to accept and take responsibility,” he said.
He was sentenced Tuesday in Dundee Regional Court.
Glamis Castle, near Dundee in central Scotland, is where the Queen’s dead mother, born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, lived as a child.