The Queen's health was deteriorating for some time and I wouldn't be surprised if she herself had already destroyed many of her personal papers. Her Majesty - rightly - could not risk having those "accidentally" winding up in the wrong hands.
The Queen is perfectly within her rights as her private sufferings and disappointments are - in my view- not in the public's right to know.
Princess Diana's mother destroyed Diana's personal writings and Princess Margaret destroyed the Queen Mother's.
I believe King Charles knows the sensitive documents have already been destroyed. Otherwise he would not have entrusted them to an employee, however trustworthy that employee is.
Indeed, yes, Nellie. Fraught and complex, but, if I might, beyond the purview of the footman, however tall.
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