The Knowfirst Reporter
18-12-04, 02:41 PM
A worker at Buckingham Palace has been sacked for trying to sell a Christmas pudding gift from the Queen on an internet auction site.
Ben Church, 25, who worked as a property administrator at the palace, was dismissed after royal officials learnt he had put the pudding from luxury food store Fortnum & Mason for sale on eBay, the Daily Mirror reported on Friday.
A palace spokeswoman confirmed that an employee had faced disciplinary action over a Christmas pudding.
"Someone was dismissed but we are not giving out further details," she said, adding it was a tradition of the queen to give every member of staff a pudding as a Christmas present.
The Mirror said the 6.25 pound pudding, which went on sale for 20 pounds, was a spare as Church had not been given one himself as he had not worked at the palace long enough.
An unnamed source told the paper Church had been sacked for committing a "security breach".
"It's really mean and petty to sack him so close to Christmas, all for the sake of a pudding," the source said.
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Ben Church, 25, who worked as a property administrator at the palace, was dismissed after royal officials learnt he had put the pudding from luxury food store Fortnum & Mason for sale on eBay, the Daily Mirror reported on Friday.
A palace spokeswoman confirmed that an employee had faced disciplinary action over a Christmas pudding.
"Someone was dismissed but we are not giving out further details," she said, adding it was a tradition of the queen to give every member of staff a pudding as a Christmas present.
The Mirror said the 6.25 pound pudding, which went on sale for 20 pounds, was a spare as Church had not been given one himself as he had not worked at the palace long enough.
An unnamed source told the paper Church had been sacked for committing a "security breach".
"It's really mean and petty to sack him so close to Christmas, all for the sake of a pudding," the source said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3133077a4560,00.html