CAMPAIGNERS are calling for the royal family’s exemption to freedom of information requests to end after a historian was refused access to…
for a Republic, has said the exemption the monarchy gets simply suggests they have “secrets to hide”, with the group insisting the this “dark and absurd” rule must be scrapped.
“There may be embarrassing questions to be asked about what Prince Andrew did when he was supposed to be a ‘working royal’, but he was paid with our money and he was supposed to be representing our country, so we should have a right to know what he’s been doing in the same way that we can question what our politicians have been up to.
Under normal rules, records transferred to The National Archives at Kew from government departments are kept secret for 20 years. But special dispensation is awarded to the royal family. Prince Andrew was the UK's special representative for trade and industry envoy from 2001 and 2011. He was forced to resign a decade into the job after being pictured with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in New York after the billionaire had been released from prison.
“The issue here is two-fold. Firstly, this is yet another example of the royal family being given a station which means they never have to face any kind of accountability or oversight and that stands in stark contrast to their claim to be public servants. You can’t be both a public servant and be unaccountable to that public.
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