Lord Bramall supported by Queen during police ordeal

LORD BRAMALL, the former head of the Army, was supported by the Queen through his year-long ordeal in which he was investigated for alleged sex crimes, it has emerged.

The UK’s former highest-ranking soldier has been told he faces no further action after being interviewed as part of a police investigation into historical child sex abuse

The 92-year-old D-Day veteran attended the annual Order of the Garter service at Windsor Castle at the height of the investigation into him, according to the Daily Mail.

He is also due to attend this year’s gala dinner and a source told the paper the Queen may seat him near her.

“Interestingly, she was planning to do so whether or not the war hero had been cleared by that time,” they said.

“The Queen can’t overtly support him but there are more subtle ways that she can express her feelings on the issue. Seating him next to her is a significant way of doing that.”

The retired field marshal was interviewed under caution last April at a police station close to his home near Farnham, Surrey.

His house had been raided by 20 officers the previous month and his wife, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s, died in the summer before her husband was cleared of any wrongdoing. Last week Lord Bramall told The Tel

egraph the police investigation had been a “witch hunt” and the letter informing him the case was not being pursued amounted to only a “grudging” admission it was ill-considered.