Crown Confidential
End Royal secrecy
OUR CAMPAIGN
The Royal Family sit at the head of the UK's state. This is not some minor, superficial position, but instead one that is central to the operation of power in the country.
The UK calls itself a democracy and yet at its heart we have a swathe of files that we cannot access. We are calling for an end to this.
We want official archives related to the Royal Family opened. They should be in the public domain.
#EndRoyalSecrecy
OUR REPORT ON ROYAL SECRECY
The UK Royal Family’s obsession with secrecy is blurring history and making it hard for us to get the full picture
As part of our special report Index sent a survey to 28 historians and journalists who work with archives related to the Royal Family. We received 10 responses. The majority wanted to remain anonymous – interesting in and of itself
A historian has paid dearly in his quest to access archives on Mountbatten, which should have been readily available. Here he writes about the personal toll
We trawled through hundreds of blocked archives on the UK Royal Family to present a flavour of what is off limits
