article_snippet.sent: Police are investigating claims by a former royal footman that palace aides tried to force him into an orgy, it was revealed yesterday.
article_snippet.sent: Christopher Lawler finally decided to contact palace officials again last year after inquiries began into alleged cover-ups of child sex abuse by a VIP paedophile ring in the 1970s and 80s.
article_snippet.sent: Police are investigating claims made by a former royal footman that Clarence Clarence House aides tried to force Christopher Lawler into an orgy in the 1970s .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Lawler, now 64, said the attempted abuse at the Queen Mother’s London residence happened in January 1978 when Christopher Lawler was 27.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Lawler worked at Clarence House when the Queen Mother used Clarence House as the Queen Mother .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Lawler, a former Port of Liverpool police officer, said Mr Lawler, a former Port of Liverpool police officer was ‘haunted’ by the incident for years.
article_snippet.sent: After hearing about the probe into historical cases of child abuse last year Mr Lawler, a former Port of Liverpool police officer wrote to the Palace, but was twice rebuffed.
article_snippet.sent: A retired royal aide, who is now in Mr Lawler, a former Port of Liverpool police officer 80s, was reportedly interviewed but denied Mr Lawler, a former Port of Liverpool police officer was involved because Mr Lawler, a former Port of Liverpool police officer was working for the Queen in Balmoral at the time.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Lawler has now been told by the Palace that the Royal Household would work ‘exhaustively and co-operatively’ with any police probe.
article_snippet.sent: A police spokesman said it would be inappropriate to comment ‘as investigations continue’.
highlights_snippet.sent: The palace is now 'cooperating' with police to investigate historic claims .