A request from Star Wars producers to film on land owned by the Queen was rejected

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The Crown Estate turned down the film franchise when it wanted to film scenes at Windsor Great Park on the grounds that the planned scenes were not suitable for the park, according to an estate spokesperson.

However, the park has been used for location filming for The Legend of Tarzan, Bridget Jones’s Baby and Goodbye Christopher Robin.

The Crown Estate's head of commercial operations, Nick Day has said: "Star Wars was just such a huge thing that the risk for the park was just too great.

"The location they were interested in wasn't suitable for large numbers of people in there.