Security breach at Buckingham Palace after driver paid
AFP
LONDON - A royal chauffeur allowed two undercover journalists into Buckingham Palace for cash and allowed one of them to sit in Queen Elizabeth II's Bentley car, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The News of the World tabloid said the security breach took place after two of its journalists, posing as wealthy businessmen from the Middle East, paid a chauffeur 1,000 pounds (1,135 euros, 1,600 dollars).
The apparent breach would not be the first time security at Buckingham Palace has been violated in recent years.
In 2003, a journalist from the Daily Mirror newspaper got a job as a footman there with a false reference, allowing him access to the queen's breakfast table and the bedroom where then US president George W. Bush and his wife were due to stay on a state visit.
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