LONDON, Nov. 19 — Buckingham Palace launched an investigation Wednesday into how it hired a journalist with a fake reference to be one of the servants assigned to serve President Bush’s party.
THE DAILY MIRROR newspaper, claiming to have exposed a security breach at Buckingham Palace, said its reporter had been given full access to Queen Elizabeth II’s residence on his first day on the job two months ago.
The Mirror said reporter Ryan Parry had been due to serve breakfast Wednesday morning to key Bush aides. It said Parry quit his job as a royal footman at midnight Tuesday.
“We keep being told this is the biggest security operation of all time and it seems to me to beggar belief that we could get to a situation, as we did last night, where our journalist was detailed with serving breakfast on the presidential floor this morning and at the state banquet tonight,” Mirror editor Pierson Morgan said.
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