Hollyood film called The Duke, starring Jim Broadbent as the unlikely thief, alongside Helen Mirren as his wife Dorothy.In the early hours of August 21, 1961, security guards at the National Gallery in London noticed that Francisco de Goya’s portrait of The Duke of Wellington was missing.Police assumed a professional gang must have been behind the snatching of the £2million masterpiece.They suspected the culprits had got in through a toilet window in the inner courtyard using a ladder left from building works.Ten days later a mystery man contacted a news agency to demand a ransom of £140,000.Weirdly, rather than wanting the cash for himself, he wanted the sum donated to a charity to pay poorer folks’ TV licence fees.
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