Charlotte Manley rarely surfaces in public life. A former Royal Navy officer who worked as a clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor, she has kept well clear of the long-running controversy surrounding her former employer. But investigators and royal commentators have now turned their attention to her, and Manley herself has made plain that, if it comes to it, she is prepared to speak.
Manley told The Times, which tracked her down at her home in the UK, that she would prefer to give any account to law enforcement rather than the press. 'I would rather talk to the police than the press, not that I would have much to tell them,' she said. It was a measured response, but the significance of it was not lost on those following Operation Ironville - the name given to the active police investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Duke of York.
