Via Daily Mail:
A white Muslim convert planned to assassinate Prince Harry in an attack he had codenamed Operation Regal, a court heard.
Belfast-born Ashraf Islam, 31, gave himself up to police the day after Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in Woolwich.
He told officers at Hounslow police station in west London that he had ‘advanced plans’ to shoot the prince at close range with a low-calibre pistol.
Islam, formerly known as Mark Townley, described Drummer Rigby as a ‘soft target’ and said he did not agree with the attack.
He said he intended to kill Prince Harry because the third in line to the throne, a veteran of Afghanistan, ‘had blood on his hands’.