The King's wayward cousin: Charles' relative being hunted by police is a pop star's son who has racked up 21 convictions for racial assault and abuse, smashing up property and threatening to stab a charity worker in the face
- Rowan Nash Lascelles has 15 sets of previous convictions for 21 offences
A pop star's son and distant cousin of King Charles is 'no stranger to the court system' after years of violence, threats, criminal damage and racist behaviour.
Rowan Nash Lascelles is currently being hunted by police after he was convicted of hurling racist abuse in a McDonald's restaurant.
The 46-year-old is the son of The Hon. James Lascelles, who is the keyboardist for Cockney Rebel, of (Come Up And See Me) Make Me Smile fame, and is also King Charles' second cousin once removed and a great-great grandchild of George V.
The wanted man is 68th in line to the throne and has multiple previous convictions for racially-aggravated criminal offences.
He has 15 sets of previous convictions for 21 offences, including being found guilty of racist and homophobic hate in McDonalds and getting himself banned from Sainsbury's after he told a member of staff to 'go back to where you come from'.
Rowan Nash Lascelles, 46, a distant cousin of King Charles, is being hunted by police after he was convicted of hurling racist abuse in a McDonald's restaurant
Rowan, who is the son of The Hon. James Lascelles (pictured), is King Charles' second cousin once removed and a great-great grandchild of George V
Lascelles's first offence took place in Leicester Square in 2018, when he was convicted of the racially aggravated assault of a casino doorman and racially abusing his supervisor.
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THE Hon. James Lascelles, 62, younger brother of the 8th Earl of Harewood is a great-grandson of George V.
Thrice-married, he turned his back on his aristocratic lifestyle to live in a commune in Norfolk in the early Seventies.
Idealistic in the extreme, the keen musician founded a band called the Global Village Trucking Company, known to fans as 'The Globs'.
They wanted to see if they could survive without signing to a record label, and played numerous free concerts with moderate success.
He had four children with his first two wives, and is pictured here with second wife Lori and children Tanit and Tewa.
Today, James plays keyboards for Cockney Rebel, of (Come Up And See Me) Make Me Smile fame.
On that occasion, he spat blood in a bouncer's face after fighting outside with a homeless man and called the supervisor a 'P***'. Lascelles jumped bail and did not appear for the trial.
A year later, he was jailed for sixteen weeks after he was found guilty of a second racially aggravated crime at Victoria Train Station on April 18.
In 2020, he was banned from a Sainsbury's store in the Strand after he told staff to 'go back to where you come from' when his card was declined.
The incident was Lascelles's third racially-aggravated conviction in which staff described him as 'very aggressive', shouting: 'I'm going to kick you out of the country. You're not English.'
At Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court, he pleaded guilty to using racially aggravated threatening behaviour towards store manager Shujel Ahmed and Sainsbury's employee Mariluz Olmo.
In 2021, he fled a hearing at City of London Magistrates' Court where police and Westminster council failed in a bid to ban him from the borough.
A court was told how Lascelles was addicted to powerful synthetic marijuana 'Spice' and mixes with the users and dealers who congregate in Westminster, particularly around The Strand.
The court was also told that Lascelles 'engaged with rough sleepers, resulting in fights and had caused a number of incidents at the drug and alcohol treatment centre in Wardour Street, Soho'.
PC Zak Ali said that on August 10, 2021, police were called to a fight outside Italian restaurant Prezzo in the West End, adding: 'One of the individuals was Mr Lascelles and he threw a bar stool, causing significant injury and was arrested for grievous bodily harm.
'That is just one. There are others and he would commit a number of offences on the same day and be arrested numerous times in one week.
'He is a burden on the Metropolitan Police and many violent incidents are not reported to the police, particularly from outreach services and the council.'
During that trial, Lascelles was also due to be sentenced for an offence of criminal damage after pleading guilty to vandalising a door on April 27 at Look Ahead Housing & Care in Vauxhall Bridge Road, Victoria.
Police are now hunting for the great-great-grandson of George VI again after he was convicted of hurling racist abuse in a McDonald's restaurant in 2023.
Aristrocrat Rowan Nash Lascelles, 43, (pictured outside Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in 2020) pleaded guilty to racially aggravated threatening behaviour at a Sainsbury's store in the Strand
Rowan was convicted of racially aggravated harassment and threatening behaviour to cause harassment alarm or distress to at a McDonald's in Kilburn High Road (pictured) last year
Magistrate Patricia Thomson issued a warrant for his arrest after he did not attend his latest trial at Willesden Magistrates' Court yesterday and was found guilty of multiple offences in his absence.
Earlier this month, Lascelles admitted racially or religiously aggravated harassment against Abdirashid Mohamed at WH Smith at Victoria station on February 16 last year.
Lascelles has been living in a multiple occupation house through a housing association but he was not there yesterday.
He also admitted threatening behaviour to Isabella Goto Abbiati and assaulting Chrysoula Nikidopoulou. Both incidents are also said to have taken place at Victoria in August 2023.
He denied but was convicted of racially aggravated harassment and threatening behaviour to cause harassment alarm or distress to at McDonald's in Kilburn High Road last September.
Lascelles approached men he believed to be gay in the restaurant referring to them as 'b***y boy' and said 'I bet you love it up the a**e.'
He shouted the N-word as he approached the counter and continued to yell it repeatedly into the kitchen, the court heard.
Lascelles also denied but was convicted of using threatening words with intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence to St Mungo's worker Claire Hopkins on September 15, 2023.
Lascelles also admitted racially or religiously aggravated harassment against Abdirashid Mohamed at WHSmith at Victoria station (pictured) on February 16 last year
Mrs Hopkins, the manager of the Westminster outreach team at St Mungo's, said Lascelles pressed their intercom and immediately started kicking the door.
He then told Mrs Hopkins: 'I'm going to get a knife and stab you in the face', the court heard.
Lascelles admitted causing £460 criminal damage to a window at St Mungo's and breaking another window worth £410, both in September last year.
He also admitted criminal damage to a Colindale police station cell on September 19, 2023.
Applying for a warrant to be issued for his arrest prosecutor Martin Edwards said Lascelles was 'no stranger to the court system.'
Lascelles, of Cambridge Gardens, Ladbroke Grove, will be sentenced on a date to be fixed if he is found by police.
