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Article: Royal letters on abdication crisis stay locked away
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- March 2, 2000
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THE public will have to wait until the Queen Mother dies for
proof of what she thought of Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee
who precipitated the 1936 abdication crisis, it emerged yesterday.
Eight Royal letters relating to the crisis, which historians
hoped would be made public yesterday in a release of documents from
Oxford University, have, in fact, been locked in the Royal Archives
for 25 years. They will remain in the archives at Windsor until the
Queen Mother dies.
Three of the letters were written by the Queen Mother, when her
husband was first crowned, and five by George VI. All were to Walter
Monckton, the lawyer to the new king's brother, Edward VIII.
Monckton was also his ...