The mountbattens andrew lownie5/18/2023 ![]() But the decision was appealed by the Cabinet Office, which “argues that the information is too sensitive to be released and that the dignity of the Queen could be compromised”, said The Times. In 2019, the Information Commissioner ruled that all documents should be released into the public domain, after historian Lownie launched his bid for unfettered access. ![]() Most of the diary contents are available for viewing at the university, but certain passages have been redacted as a result of Cabinet Office intervention. In 2011, his family sold his diaries for £2.8m in lieu of death duties to the University of Southampton. Mountbatten, the Queen’s cousin and uncle to the Duke of Edinburgh, was murdered in an IRA bombing in 1975. Which Royals might step in to help the Queen?īut Andrew Lownie, who has written a biography of Mountbatten, argued at a tribunal hearing this week that 120 redacted references in the diaries should be made public. ![]() ![]() Colonialism culture wars: how the Queen got ‘cancelled’. ![]()
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