Abdication papers: Mystery of Box 24: Where is the Queen Mother's letter? Royal correspondence, expected to be `devastatingly' critical of ex- King's lover, is missing from newly released documents

From: The Independent - London | Date: March 2, 2000| Author: John Davison | Copyright information

AFTER CONSIDERABLE hype and historical anticipation, it seems the latest release of documents relating to the 1936 Abdication Crisis are of interest more for what remains obscure than for what is revealed.

The Bodleian Library at Oxford University released 10 boxes of correspondence yesterday belonging to Sir Walter Monckton (later Viscount Monckton of Brenchley), legal adviser and close confidante of Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor. Historians hoped they would hold sensational...

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