Beware falling pictures.

More 'elf and safety madness as pensioner is ordered 'Take down portrait of Queen - it could fall on a fireman'

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 12:41 PM on 11th October 2010

The Queen and Prince Charles have been banned from a pensioner's home - on health and safety grounds.

Royalty-lover Jean Thomas proudly hung a picture of the royals on the stairs landing outside her sheltered housing flat in Swansea.

But safety officials ordered the 2ft by 18ins photograph to be pulled down - in case it fell on a fireman in an emergency.

Too risky: Jean Thomas, from Swansea, South Wales has been told to take down her framed photograph of the Queen and Prince Charles due to health and safety rules

Mrs Thomas, 80, said: 'It's just silly isn't it? The warden took them down saying: 'It's rules and regulations.'

'Apparently the health and safety people said my picture may cause an obstruction, or fall off if there was a fire. It is daft.

'The Prince doesn't like all this health and safety rubbish - he would probably be on our side.'

Jean put up the picture of Prince Charles' investiture ceremony when he was made Prince of Wales in Caernarvon Castle in 1969.

 

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