Courtier demanded assurance king could not be prosecuted under new Welsh law

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Palace official secured assurance under archaic custom that requires UK parliaments to get consent of monarch to draft bills

Royal courtiers privately put pressure on the Welsh government to ensure that King Charles could not be prosecuted for rural crimes under a new law that ministers had drawn up, documents reveal.

The elected minister in the Welsh government who is its chief legal adviser was “not happy” that the king was to be given the special exemption from prosecution but agreed to it last year.

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