King Charles' racist cousin is hunted by police after being convicted of hurling abuse in McDonald's

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 Nash Lascelles, 46, who is the son of The Hon. James Lascelles, is King Charles' second cousin once removed and a great-great grandchild of George V.

Lascelles is 68th in line to the throne and has multiple previous convictions for racially-aggravated criminal offences.

Magistrate Patricia Thomson issued a warrant for his arrest after he did not attend his latest trial at Willesden Magistrates' Court today and was found guilty of multiple offences in his absence.

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

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

Earlier this month Lascelles admitted racially or religiously aggravated harassment against Abdirashid Mohamed at WHSmith at Victoria station on February 16 last year.

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 'batty 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.

When a black male objected Lascelles replied 'go on let me say it one more time'.

Police were later called to the scene and Lascelles was arrested.

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.

She said: 'I could hear he was shouting but couldn't hear what he was saying initially.

'One staff member was outside trying to get in so we made the decision to go outside and support her to come into building.

'When she came in Rowan placed his foot and shoulder against the door to prevent me from closing it and that's when he started shouting again.

'He was shouting about a colleague of mine called Maria and making quite specific threats to Maria that he wanted to smash her head in.'

He then told Mrs Hopkins: 'I'm going to get a knife and stab you in the face', the court heard.

She said she was scared and shaking and wanted to shut the door as quickly as she could. Once the door was shut Lascelles disappeared but later returned and smashed two windows.

Mrs Hopkins said: 'I was scared, we have metal bars on the side of our windows so I was really grateful for that as it meant he couldn't have come in.' He ran before the police arrived, she said.

Mrs Hopkins had known Lascelles through the charity on and off since 2020.

She said: 'There have been periods where Rowan has been friendly and as a charity we have been able to support him but also other incidents where he has been aggressive and threatening.'

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.'

He has 15 sets of previous convictions for 21 offences including racially aggravated harassment.

Lascelles has been living in a multiple occupation house through a housing association but he was not there yesterday.

He was once banned from Sainsbury's in The Strand for telling staff to 'go back to where you come from'.

Lascelles, of Cambridge Gardens, Ladbroke Grove, will be sentenced on a date to be fixed if he is found by police.