Overview
- ITV identified 26-year-old Matthew Gravill as a key propagandist for Active Club England and Vanguard Britannica, groups described by investigators as neo-Nazi-aligned.
- Gravill worked as a Buckingham Palace warden guiding visitors until last year, while the Palace and Royal Collection Trust declined to discuss individual security or vetting.
- In September he traveled to Texas and was photographed alongside U.S. white‑supremacist figures Robert Rundo, Thomas Rousseau and Jared Taylor during networking events.
- Confronted by reporters, he rejected the neo‑Nazi label and called himself an ethnocentrist who favors an ethnically homogenous society, claims experts say contrast with the movement’s combat training ethos.
- Active Club branches are not proscribed under UK terror law, and former counter‑terror chief Neil Basu and other experts warned of an elevated threat as Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the case will be examined.