A Romanian princess accused of hosting cockfighting derbies with her husband at their Eastern Oregon ranch pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to one count of operating an illegal gambling venture. The Walkers were initially charged with directing or owning an illegal gambling business, conspiracy to violate the animal welfare act and 10 counts of sponsoring or exhibiting a rooster in an unlawful animal fighting venture. The two are both scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 22. Irina Walker, 61, is the third daughter of former Romanian King Michael I, who was forced to abdicate by communists in 1947. Irina Walker, 61, admitted to U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman that from April 2012 until May 2013 she "provided food and beverages" for those attending the cockfights held on her and her husband's property. A reporter for Adevarul opined: 
 
 "What has happened between now and then? According to U.S. Attorney Stephen Peifer, John Walker arranged with a co-defendant, Mario Perez, to set up a cockfighting operation on the Walker property. They also sold and pocketed the profits of alcohol and other beverages. Initially, Irina Walker provided the food, but it was found to be "unacceptable" to the attendees, Peifer said. Peifer said the people who brought roosters to fight paid $1,000 to enter, and the pool ranged from $10,000 to $18,000. The person whose roosters won the most fights took home the money, except for the 10 percent takeout kept by the referees. All have pleaded guilty in either Oregon or Washington except for two fugitives who have not been arrested. Irina Walker moved to the U.S. from Switzerland in the early 1980s with her former-husband John Kreuger, her daughter, Angelica Kreuger, told the AP last year. They divorced in 2002, and five years later King Michael added Princess Sofia back in line for the throne. Walker is the daughter of the last king of Romania and is married to John Wesley Walker, 68, a former Coos County sheriff's deputy who also pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to the same charge. He told Judge Mosman that an experienced cockfighting referee, Mario Perez, came to him, seeking a place to hold derbies. John Walker also arranged for a Pendleton company to provide portable toilets for the derbies.
– "Romanian princess" and "cockfighting" probably aren’t the two terms you were expecting to hear together today, but Irina Walker just made that happen—again. The 61-year-old daughter of the last king of Romania and her husband, John, pleaded guilty yesterday to running an illegal gambling operation from their Oregon ranch. The admission came as part of a government deal in which charges of animal fighting and conspiracy to violate the animal welfare act were dropped, the AP reports. The princess admitted to profiting from what authorities say were at least 10 rooster "derbies" that she and her husband hosted in which the birds fought to the death with sharp knives strapped to their legs. "I provided food and beverage, your honor, and the location," she said in court. Prosecutors alleged the husband-and-wife team made a pretty penny from the operation: They charged 100 or so spectators a $20 cover and kept profits from alcohol sales, according to the Oregonian. Irina also attempted to make food to sell to the crowd, but prosecutors said attendees deemed her offerings “unacceptable”; the Walkers then commissioned a Mexican woman to make tacos (they reportedly let her keep her concession cash after charging her a fee). The Walkers are set to be sentenced in October, with an expected government recommendation for the duo to pony up $200,000 from their cockfighting proceeds and get three years of probation, says the AP.