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When material is released on the royals it is often heavily censored. Lownie says of the Lord Mountbatten case: “They tried to redact every single mention of the Royal Family in those 3,000 pages. Really innocent stuff: ‘Prince Philip came for tea,’ ‘Princess Elizabeth had her birthday party today’"
bylinetimes.com
MPs Bid to End ‘Royal Secrecy’ and Open the Crown Up to Scrutiny
Proposed bill would strip the King and his heirs of their blanket Freedom of Information exemptions — as royal biographer describes a decade of blocked requests and redactions