UK reporter piles on ‘royal dirt’

Parry worked as a royal servant for two months, despite having applied with a false reference. PM Tony Blair has ordered a security review.

The White House was quick to voice confidence in British security, although the Daily Mirror said Bush could have been exposed to a terror attack at the heart of the establishment.

The paper on Thursday said Parry had blown security wide open at Windsor Castle, where the Queen relaxes most weekends.

Parry said that security at the castle was lax, with ‘‘unguarded doors, no sentries, unchecked baggage and our bus waved through without checks’’. He said that in his job as a footman, he served the Queen her favourite tipple of gin and dubonnet, walked her dogs in the castle grounds and even took food to her private apartments. ‘‘I was able to penetrate even the fortress walls of Windsor Castle without showing a security pass,’’ he wrote. (Reuters)