Prince Philip's will to be secret for 90 years

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'to protect the Queen's dignity,' apparently..

Why the secrecy do you think?

her dignity? so he left her nothing

Prince Phillip's what?

I think all royal wills are sealed. It’s not special or specific to Prince Philip. It’s just what happens.

Oh, ignore me, I mis-read the title

Illegitimate children?

Perhaps he left fortunes to his lady friends and/or illegitimate children.

My (completely uninformed) guess is either he has cut H&M out or has left something significant to Penny (was that her name?)

Inheritance to his other children?

Did he have much of his own? It's a bit sad really. Anyway, not really anyone else's business.

All royal wills are sealed for a set number of years. No conspiracy I'm afraid

It's standard in the royal family I think. There won't be anything particularly interesting or scandalous in his will, it's just the public don't need to know how much he left to Cats Protection.

@PotteringAlong

I think all royal wills are sealed. It’s not special or specific to Prince Philip. It’s just what happens.

But why should it? Like why should a royal be able to hide behind protection officers to avoid a court case. I'd acquiesce to allow it to be closed until the Queen died but 90 years? Long live the revolution

@PotteringAlong

I think all royal wills are sealed. It’s not special or specific to Prince Philip. It’s just what happens.

Are they? I'm sure I've read that Harry inherited a lot from the Queen Mother.

If it's like the Queen Mother's will the place will announce the main details but the personal stuff will remain private.

@HeyGirlHeyBoy

My (completely uninformed) guess is either he has cut H&M out or has left something significant to Penny (was that her name?)

Or possibly the worse offender he has cut off Andrew because he knew the truth and given his share to maybe Archie .

I’m going to guess that it will remain private because either he had an obscene amount of money/assets and revealing the true amount he had in investments will annoy a lot of people. OR, he had absolutely nothing. Everything belongs to the Queen.

It's totally standard. We don't get to nose in to how the groom got a thousand quid and he left his pony to lady Louise. It's private.

Amazing that people still swallow the line that they are public servants. Are they bollocks.

Nothing unusual. That is established protocol for Royal wills; google it.

Normal practice with the RF, the queen’s mother and Diana was the same.

@Northernlurker

It's totally standard. We don't get to nose in to how the groom got a thousand quid and he left his pony to lady Louise. It's private.

Well of course. We plebs have to have our wills made public, but they can hide theirs until almost everyone alive today is dead.

Then it’ll be an interesting curio, like opening a time capsule, rather than the spark of a revolutionary war.

What an idiotic nation we are.

Or maybe he didn't cut Andrew out Preparation..

Well of course. We plebs have to have our wills made public, but they can hide theirs until almost everyone alive today is dead

I assume we plebs can also apply to the court (as the royal family do in these situations) for it to be kept private if we feel our wills are interesting enough to the wider public to do so.

I bet his will is as boring as horseshit anyway, this is just a distraction from other stuff.

@2bazookas

Nothing unusual. That is established protocol for Royal wills; google it.

But why the fuck should we allow it?