The Duke - Fundraiser for COTA

In 1961, 60-year old taxi driver Kempton Bunton stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was, and remains the only, theft in the Gallery’s history.

Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on the condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly. He had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. A special fundraising screening for COTA.