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?
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