Queen went nuts over nibbles, court hears

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth was so incensed with royal police officers eating nuts from bowls left out in the corridors of Buckingham Palace that she drew lines on the sides in a bid to catch them out, a London court heard yesterday.

Queen went nuts over nibbles, court hears

In emails submitted to the phone-hacking trial of journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct News of the World tabloid, its royal reporter said he had learnt that a memo had been issued to all officers telling them to “keep their sticky fingers out”.

To laughter in the court, Judge John Saunders told the jury that these were “unfounded allegations”.

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