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Revealed: police barred from searching Queen’s estates for looted artefacts
Exclusive: palace and government refuse to say why exemption from 2017 law was deemed necessary
Police have been barred from searching the Queen’s private estates for stolen or looted artefacts after ministers granted her a personal exemption from a law that protects the…
- David Pegg and Rob Evans
- The Guardian
Buckingham Palace and the government are refusing to say why it was deemed necessary in 2017 to give the Queen an exemption that prevents police from searching Balmoral and…
A spokesperson for the Queen dismissed any suggestion that stolen or looted artefacts were being held on the…