The royal family is to be granted absolute protection from public scrutiny in a controversial legal reform designed to draw a veil of secrecy over the affairs of the Queen, and Ponces Charles and William.
Letters, emails and documents relating to the monarch, her heir and the second in line to the throne will no longer be disclosed even if they are in the public interest.
Sweeping changes to the Freedom of Information Act will reverse advances which had briefly shone a light on the royal finances, including an attempt by the Queen to use a state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace, and which had threatened to force the disclosure of the Ponce of Wales's prolific correspondence with ministers.
Utterly wrong.
If they serve the public and are paid by the public, then the public has a right to know what they are getting for their money. If they don't like it, they all know where the door is.
More at the Independent.
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