Quoting from the source opening this thread -
"Mr Whybrew is working two days a week on the project, using gloves to protect the papers from the Queen’s desk as he sifts through letters and correspondence.
He is part of a team from the Master of the Household’s Department and the Royal Collection Trust."
This whole exercise set me thinking.
There would be routine processes, on a daily, weekly or monthly basis say, for filing and archiving the business or official letters and papers produced by the monarch in the normal course of their "work". Like any government department.
One would hope that archivists are involved all along the way.
This "new" matter involves her diary - which is personal - and letters - which would have already been deemed personal or private in the normal course of "business", if my thinking above is on track.
I think the diary has huge historical importance. The letters too.
Perhaps Mr Whybrew is doing a first sorting, into some agreed groupings. I'm sure archivists would have routine procedures for preliminary ordering of any person's papers.
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