ROYAL courtiers put pressure on the Welsh Government to make sure King Charles would not be prosecuted under a new law drawn up by a minister, it has emerged.
Under the mechanism, ministers notify the royal family of specific clauses in draft laws that may affect their personal wealth, private property or public functions. The ministers ask the monarch to approve the laws before they can be passed. In the case of last year’s Agriculture Act, the King was exempted from regulations relating to the marketing of agricultural products, the disposal of carcasses and the disclosure of information to the Welsh state.Police are also unable to gain automatic entry to the king’s private property portfolio under that part of the act.
According to Buckingham Palace, the royal household rang the Welsh Government to ensure that “as a matter of legal correctness” the monarch could not be prosecuted under the Agriculture Act.