LONDON: The will of Prince Philip, the late husband Queen Elizabeth England, will be sealed and remains private for at least 90 years to preserve the dignity of the king, a judge in the London High Court has ruled.
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who was married to the 95-year-old British Monarch for more than seven decades, died at the age of 99 at his wife’s windsor castle home to the west of London on April 9.
In accordance with the Convention originating from 1910, Andrew McFarlane, the President of the Family Division of the Court, said he had approved the Pilip’s Will must be sealed “and that there is no copy of the wills that must be made for records or stored in court files”.
He also decided to request “to exclude the real value of the judge’s grant”.
“The publication level that the publication is likely to be interesting will be very broad and fully contrary to the purpose of maintaining sovereign dignity,” McFarlane said in a decision published on Thursday.
He said the convention was that after the death of a senior Royal, an application to seal the will was carried out to the president of the family division, with such an audience and assessment was kept secret.
However, he said, “As from this judgment,” he considered it “the necessary and proportional intrusion into noble personal matters and royal families to make the public the fact that the application to seal the will of Prince Philip …
has been made and given Personally, and to explain the underlying reasons “.
The judge said 90 years must graduate from the provision of a judge’s approval before the will must be sealed personally before possible publication, the period said “proportional and adequate”.
He said the first Royal to be sealed was Prince Francis from Teck, who was the younger brother of George V’s wife, Queen Mary.
He said he was a safe guard containing more than 30 envelopes with the will of dead nobles.
The latest addition was made in 2002 after the death of Ms.
Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth, and her sister Margaret, he said.