‘Quite the legacy’: Julian Assange asks Britain's King Charles to visit him in prison

He has been behind bars since being dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he had sought refuge from being sent to the States

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Julian Assange has written to Britain's King Charles III asking the monarch to visit him in prison.

The WikiLeaks founder has spent more than four years in Belmarsh prison in London as he fights a lengthy legal challenge against an attempt to extradite him to the US.