A Culture of Secrecy: Outrage Grows as Prince Andrew’s Record as UK Trade Envoy Are Sealed Until He Turns 105 Years Old
Another week, another Prince Andrew controversy – the disgraced Royal can’t catch a break.
Now, it arises that the records regarding the Duke of York’s work as UK Trade Envoy are sealed until 2065. Yes, you read it right.
A basic tenet of History is: ‘If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday’. And that’s what British biographer Andrew Lownie tried to do.
Author of ‘The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves’, and ‘Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’, Lownie is now working in a biography of Prince Andrew that is sending shivers up the spine of ‘the Firm’ (how the Royal Family calls itself).
Lownie stumbled into what he believes is a ‘culture of secrecy’ surrounding royal correspondence.
