The UK’s oldest Indian restaurant is suing King Charles’s property business, claiming it is being forced out of its 100-year-old Regent Street home because the business doesn’t want an “Indian restaurant in [the] midst” of its “smart” new offices.

Winston Churchill, Marlon Brando and Charlie Chaplin have all dined at Michelin-starred Veeraswamy in Victory House, and its chefs have twice catered for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

It is thought to be where Britain's love of lager with curry originated, when Prince Axel of Denmark shipped over Carlsberg to have with his meals.

The owners of the historic eatery are now locked in a court fight over their future with the landlords, the Crown Estate Commissioners, the managers of the property portfolio owned by King Charles.

The royal estate, which generates income for the Treasury and royal family, wants to kick out the restaurant so the upper floors of the building can be turned into “high-class” offices as part of a £1bn regeneration of Regent…