Ministers waging a bitter battle over royal diaries and letters may be trying to cover up an affair of Prince Philip’s, a historian claims.
Author Andrew Lownie estimates the Government has spent around £2million trying to stop him seeing the complete archive left by Philip’s uncle Lord Mountbatten and his wife.
Dr Lownie says he has spent £460,000 in legal fees trying to reveal secrets concealed within the 30,000 pages.
