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The secrecy of Princess Mary’s final wishes may be ripe for conspiracy theory, but royal will suppression has a surprising history
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The secrecy of Princess Mary’s final wishes may be ripe for conspiracy theory, but royal will suppression has a surprising history
It sounds immediately like the stuff of intrigue. This month, a report stating that the National Archives had sealed up some royal household correspondence over the will of Elizabeth II’s aunt, Princess Mary (who died in 1965), turned the spotlight on the subject of royal wills. Was there something mysterious going on with our late Queen’s finances?
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In 1682, a warship carrying the future James VII and II sank off the Norfolk coast. Expert historians chronicle the disaster and the discovery of the vessel
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