Prince Philip's will can remain sealed due to “exceptional” circumstances, despite a legal challenge from The Guardian.
, the three judges presiding over the case, said that the press could not be invited to the private hearing “without risking the media storm that was feared.”
They wrote in the ruling, “The 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.”
Wills in the UK are typically a matter of public record following a person's death, however, the tradition for the last century when it comes to members of the royal family is that their wills remain sealed. “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. These circumstances are, as we have said, exceptional,” the judges wrote.
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