MELBOURNE, Australia — A 63-year-old man was banned on Wednesday from contacting Norway’s Princess Ingrid Alexander or her household for 2 years as she research at a college in Australia.
David James Prepare dinner appeared in courtroom the place he was issued with a two-year Apprehended Violence Order that forestalls him from getting into the Sydney College campus or looking out the 22-year-old royal on-line and contacting her or her household.
Such orders are supposed to stop a person from subjecting one other particular person to acts of violence, intimidation or harassment.
Prepare dinner informed reporters as he left the Newtown Courtroom Home, in Sydney, that the order stemmed from a card he despatched to Ingrid, who’s second in line to the Norwegian throne.
“I despatched her a card simply asking for friendship, that’s all,” Prepare dinner informed 9 Information tv. He added: “I didn’t deliberately upset her in any means and I wouldn’t achieve this. She’s a pleasant particular person. I ran into her at an occasion and I adopted up with the cardboard.”
Prepare dinner was later charged with assaulting a information photographer after his courtroom look. The photographer suffered minor accidents, a police assertion stated.
Prepare dinner was launched from police custody and can seem in courtroom on July 17 on the assault cost.
Ingrid has been dwelling on the college campus in Sydney since she arrived in Australia final 12 months for a three-year diploma course in worldwide relations.
The daughter of Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit just lately left Australia for Norway to go to her mom who’s significantly sick, in accordance with media stories.
