BRITAIN'S BIGGEST JEWEL RAID

Chronicle (Levin), 18 October 1946, Page 5

BRITAIN'S BIGGEST JEWEL RAID

Press Assn.-

DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR L0§E COLLECTIOfl REPORTEDLY WORfH £250,000

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Received Friday, 10.^5 ,aum. LONDON, October 17. Jewellery worth .thousands sterling, belonging to the Du'ke and Duchess of Windsor, was stoleri from Ednam Lodge; Sunningdale, the Windsor's holiday home. t ^ v The Evening News fetfclusively Statecl tfidt tHe b'urglar§ *■' robbed the Windsors of jewellery worth at least £250,000 sterling, but the Pres£ Association correSpohdent was informed at Ednam Lodge that the value of the stolen jewels was below £25,000 and tfie losS is Coverbd 6y irisiirance.

The robbery was carried out at dusk yesterday. The Evening News says that praetically every valuable the Duke artd Duchess of Windsor possessed was taken, but £30,000 sterling worth of jewellery was found strewn in the grounds surrounding Ednam Lodge. The Press Association says that the Duchess of Windsor's collection of jewellery, is es'timated to be valued at £250,000 sterling, including complete sets of blue sapphires, rubies, emeralds, diamoncis and turquoises. The Duchess brought all her jewels from France o'n October 11, but placed most of them on safe deposit. Describing the raid as the biggest ever carried out in Britain, the Evening News says that the thieves went to the 1,1 1 1 1 J

! Duchess' bedroom, opened a ' large b'lack box -wherein pfafcjtically all the Windsors' jewels ;\^ere. kept and took all the | jewel cases from the box. i The Press Association adds ( that three bf Scotland Yard's I best brains are investigating. | The Surrey police callecl in Scotland Yard when the extent • of the robbery was discovered. | The Scotland Yard men are j investigating whether the rob- | bery was the work of cat burg- : lars entexing the bedrooms ; after climbing on to the roof, or jby "Walk in" thieves entering The grounds by the main gate I and walking into the house by ! the main door. The burglars were not heard jalthough praetically all the i staff was in the house.