A royal shame: Irina Walker, a Romanian princess living in Oregon, was sentenced to probation on Wednesday for running an illegal cockfighting business at her home A Romanian princess was sentenced Wednesday to probation after apologizing for her role in an Oregon cockfighting enterprise that she said brought shame to her and her family. 'I'm very sorry about my involvement in this business,' Irina Walker told a federal judge before she was given three years' probation. 'It was not my intention to go against the law.' She and her husband John Walker both pleaded guilty in July to operating an illegal gambling business.
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Irina Walker, third daughter of former Romanian King Michael I, was sentenced to probation on Wednesday for her part in a cockfighting ring
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Her father Michael I was forced to abdicate the throne by communists in 1947 and Irina grew up mainly in Switzerland
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The princess and her husband John Walker were caught running the illegal gambling business on their Irrigon, Oregon property in 2013
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