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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?
In 1943 Alastair, the handsome 2nd Duke of Connaught, got drunk, fell out of a window, and froze to death. He could have been our king!
Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, the Guardian’s Cost of the crown series exposes the entrenched secrecy around the royal family’s money and wealth