"They are treating me like a criminal when all I am is a working man, " he said.

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"But it was when he visited Genoa and he actually saw the kind of properties that merchants were living in and he thought, I am the richest man in Wales I need something better than a ramshackle of pile, and when he was in Rome he commissioned another architect to design, what is in effect, a palace of culture, " Mr Gammond said.

BBC: Sir Watkin Williams