An iconic Indian restaurant might have to shut after 99 years. Can the King save it?

Government

Campaigners trying to prevent the closure of the UK's oldest surviving Indian restaurant are going to take a petition to Buckingham Palace in the next few weeks, calling on King Charles III to intervene. Veeraswamy, a restaurant founded in 1926 and still in its original location on London's Regent Street, faces not having its lease renewed in a dispute with its landlord, the Crown Estate. King Charles has been an advocate for building links between communities and the restaurant's supporters