A cousin of Queen Elizabeth II was jailed on Tuesday for ten months for sexually assaulting a woman who was a guest at her ancestral castle in Scotland.
Simon Bowes-Lyon, Earl of Strathmore, had admitted to assaulting the 26-year-old woman in February 2020 in a bedroom at Glamis Castle, which was the children’s home of the queen’s late mother.
Her victim is still suffering from nightmares due to the 20-minute attack, in which Bowes-Lyon entered her room uninvited and palpated her as she tried to take off her nightgown, Dundee Sheriff Court heard. according to the BBC.
Bowes-Lyon, 34, a first cousin twice separated from the queen, pleaded guilty last month and said he was “ashamed of my actions that have caused so much distress to a guest of my house.”
“I didn’t think I would be able to behave like I did, but I had to deal with it and take responsibility,” he said.
Bowes-Lyon was also placed on the sex offender registry for ten years.
He had faced up to five years in prison, but got the lightest term after his lawyer, John Scott, reminded the court that the earl had shown “genuine remorse”.
Glamis Castle, near Dundee, in central Scotland, is the birthplace of the Queen’s late mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, and the Queen’s sister, the Queen. Princess Margaret told the BBC.
With publishing cables
