LONDON: The head of London’s Royal Albert Hall has apologized to a couple who were denied entry to a concert because of the husband’s Palestinian lapel pin, The Guardian reported on Friday.
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Roger Cauthery, 81, and his wife Angele then stood in the foyer for 15 minutes before a supervisor — who overruled the earlier decision — arrived.
Cauthery said: “We felt extremely upset, not to say humiliated, by their behaviour towards us. I’m a middle-class ex-public school boy brought up to believe that Brits are decent and law abiding and that one can live one’s life freely.
“I was merely showing solidarity with the Palestinian people and expressing my support for what I believe, and the UN believes, is a legitimate state.
