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Can I Take One of These Home? Prince Charles Is Shown Bank of England's Vaults Where 400,000 Gold Bars Worth L100 Billion Are Stored
By Rebecca English Daily Mail, London Wednesday, December 7, 2016
As jokes go it probably wasn't the most tactful, but at least it tickled Prince Charles.
On a royal visit to the Bank of England today, Governor Mark Carney told the heir to throne as he sat down with a group of deputies in his historic office for a private briefing: "A tremendous amount of mistakes have been made at this table!"
The prince's tour came at the personal invitation of Mr. Carney, who visited him at Clarence House in February.
The aim of the visit was, ostensibly, to "recognise and celebrate the bank's mission to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability."
During his tour of the building Charles was given a private viewing of more than L100 billion worth of gold. ...
... For the remainder of the report, with lots of photographs of the prince with gold bars:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-40107...es-shown-Ban...
