to the Telegraph, judges rejected the outlet’s claim on Friday, saying there were “exceptional” circumstances for the will hearing to be done privately.Court judges Sir Geoffrey Vos, Dame Victoria Sharp and Lady Justice King said that the press could not know about the meeting “without risking the media storm that was feared.”“It is true that the law applies equally to the Royal Family, but that does not mean that the law produces the same outcomes in all situations,” the judges said on July 29. “These circumstances are, as we have said, exceptional.”“The [will] hearing was at a hugely sensitive time for the Sovereign and her family, and those interests would not have been protected if there had been protracted hearings reported in the press rather than a single occasion on which full reasons for what had been decided were published,” the judges said in their ruling.In the United Kingdom, a will is usually kept available as public record.
However, members of the royal family have managed to keep each of their wills sealed for hundreds of years. The justices also stated that they weren’t “sure that there is a specific public interest in knowing how the assets of the Royal family are distributed.”They admitted that a “perceived lack of transparency [from the royal family] might be a matter of legitimate public debate,” but noted that the Non-Contentious Probate Rules “allows wills and their values to be concealed from the public gaze in some cases.
The judge properly applied the statutory test in this case.”The Duke of Edinburgh passed away at age 99 on April 9, 2021. He was just two months shy of his 100th birthday.“It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal.
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