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RICHARD EDEN: Private box-holders' fury at Royal Albert Hall 'exclusion', as they begin High Court action against legendary London venue
RICHARD EDEN: Three box owners have, I can disclose, begun a High Court action, alleging that they're being unlawfully excluded from using the seats in their boxes.
Billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe snapped one up for £2.76million in 2017, while the Earl of Rosse put his on the market just over a year ago for £3million. The range and number of events has certainly expanded in recent decades, far beyond what might have been imagined when The Beatles included a lyric about the Albert Hall in their 1967 song, A Day In The Life. A spokesman for the hall says it ‘acts fully in accordance with the guidelines agreed by seat holders annually at the AGM’, before adding: ‘We cannot comment on a live legal case.’
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