RUSSIAN cyber criminals targeted the Royal Family yesterday — days after King Charles's condemnation of the Ukraine war.

Hacktivist pro-Putin group KillNet said they brought down the royal.uk website for 90 minutes this morning ­— forcing Palace chiefs to scramble their cyber security experts.

A source said: "This was a denial of service attack which saw the site bombarded with traffic."

Royal fans trying to log in saw the message "Gateway time-out error code 504".