Saturday 6 August 2022 10:07 PM Royal Albert Hall trustees hawk their tickets to Last Night Of The Proms for up ... trends now

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Royal Albert Hall trustees and members are selling their tickets to Last Night Of The Proms for up to 12 times their face value – two years after the taxpayer had to cough up £20 million to bail out the struggling concert hall.

Last night critics accused them of presiding over a ‘national disgrace’ for cashing in when the London venue owes its existence to a huge loan from the Government’s pandemic culture recovery fund.

Richard Lyttleton, a former president of the Royal Albert Hall (RAH), a registered charity, said that it ‘illustrates an almost mind-boggling sense of entitlement’.

Almost a quarter of the Royal Albert Hall’s 5,272 seats are owned by 330 members. Costing about £150,000 each, they are the property of banks, large organisations and rich individuals.