Abbey joins Da Vinci row

By Robert Mendick, Evening Standard
31 May 2005

It is one of the best-selling and most controversial novels ever, with more than 20 million copies sold worldwide. The Da Vinci Code, which follows an American professor trying to discover the secrets of the Holy Grail, has been heavily criticised by religious leaders.

Now the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey have gone one step further, calling the novel " theologically unsound".

They say it is important people realise the thriller, written by Dan Brown, is neither religiously nor historically correct and contains errors.

They have even armed marshals at the abbey with leaflets to tell tourists exactly what the novel got wrong.
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must be giddy with anticipation. Media frenzy. People are going to want to see the movie, even just to compare things like the abbey's leaflets with their own take on the movie.

and claim title to the throne of the Merovingian bloodline.

Read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the first book in the series. He was supposed to do it back then but instead went to jail for tax evasion, so they had to come up with another book to prime the public for the big show.

--IMM