Keeping Royal Secrets

Duke of Edinburgh’s will is another case in point.

The first thing I would say is how did the Royal family help in the Pandemic crisis? Front line workers ,Dr's ,nurses , Supermarket workers, local communities , pharmacies yes.
The Royals took off to what they thought was their safe country seats, perhaps Prince Andrew was a decoy to stop us all wondering where they were and up to.
No one should be allowed immunity from public scrutiny, except perhaps the political refugees from Afghanistan.
The rest of us aren't so why should they.

There are lots of things which are not released for a number of years. Why do you want to nose into their private matters? Everyone is entitled to some privacy.

Why would anyone be interested in what is in the Duke of Edinburgh's Will?

What truly private matters ? Wanting to know about their private life ? Know what ?

I don't have much interest in the sex life of someone who died 40 years ago, or his responsibility for the disastrous partition of India or his habit of piloting Navy ships into inanimate objects.

I do have an interest in a future monarch trying to keep this secret for his own ends when the person it refers to wasn't even part of the RF.

I’m ok with ordinary people like me as well as the RF having some privacy
Celebs and so called influencers seem to want to live every aspect of they’d lives in public.

This is not about them having secrets, as such. Its about them keeping things hidden and using the government and courts to do it, when us knowing those things might make us question whether they are up to the job.

I suppose it rather depends on what it is that’s being protected. I think the royals should receive no more and generally speaking, no less privacy than the rest of us. There may be exceptions to this, if their privacy hides privileges that the rest of us don’t receive.

Alegrias1

This is not about them having secrets, as such. Its about them keeping things hidden and using the government and courts to do it, when us knowing those things might make us question whether they are up to the job.

Yes, absolutely.

I believe there's a lot that is kept hidden about the Royal Family and maybe some things should be open to scrutiny.
I have never had an idealised view of them.

But what secrets ?

I'm not much interested in the RF, perhaps with the exception of PA, who I believe should have to face the consequences of his past "private life". But for truly private matters; I suspect that most of us wouldn't want our family's private matters to be known by the world and his dog either; veryone has the right to some privacy. And why on earth are you interested in knowing the contents of someone's will? Did you think you'd have been a beneficiary and want to check?

I am perfectly content with their public image and role and have little interest in their private lives. I don't idolise them.

That applies to my view of most people in the public eye, royal or not.

The thought of them all doing a Diana, a Fergie or a Harry , yuck

eazybee

I am perfectly content with their public image and role and have little interest in their private lives. I don't idolise them.

That applies to my view of most people in the public eye, royal or not.

Ditto

Oldwoman70

Why would anyone be interested in what is in the Duke of Edinburgh's Will?

Well that isn’t the point. The law says that everyone’s will is public property EXCEPT the Sovereigns.

They should be upholders if the law as it is all done in the Sovereigns name.

Oldwoman70

Why would anyone be interested in what is in the Duke of Edinburgh's Will?

I wasn’t. Until I learned that it’s to be kept secret for 90 years!

I don't think this is about their day to day private lives as I for one am not interested.

Same here eazybee and Rekarie.

Their day to day privacy is really of no interest to most people, except those in GN??? where it is explored in minute detail, whether based on fact or not.

But there are some things that are necessary to know because it is a constitutional monarchy that rules by consent of the people. Law is passed and carried out in the sovereigns name/consent. By-passing/doing a deal against current legislation is not particularly constitutional, but it seems to be the way the U.K. is going these days.

This is not about whether anyone is interested in their secrets.

To paraphrase what the Cabinet Office official said:

There are things in this diary, a diary which belongs to the University of Southampton and was sold to them by Louis Mountbatten, that the RF would rather you didn't know because if you did know you might think that they are not suitable for the job they do.

In other words, we're going to keep you in the dark and feed you... well, you know.

www.theweek.co.uk/news/uk-news/954856/what-is-inside-buried-mountbatten-diaries

Alegrias1

is your own life boring?

Someone’s diary entries are events/conversations etc. observed from their perspective in this case Louis Mountbatten. Not necessarily an all round unbiased account.

Most families have skeletons in the cupboard, I think that’s where they should stay.

(Prince Andrew’s case is different inasmuch as he is being asked by a court of law to give his side of the story in part of a criminal case)