Correspondent in London
His cassette would not be as extensive as that but Queen Elizabeth II would be keen to preserve its secrets.
Buckingham Palace had to deny embarrassing revelations on Monday that the sovereign had pressured the government so that the amount of her private property was not made public.
The facts date back to the mid-1970s. In an investigation released over the weekend and based on government notes unearthed from the national archives, the Guardian claims that Elizabeth II asked her personal lawyer to serve as the seat of several ministers and senior officials to amend a bill.
In the fall of 1973, Matthew Farrer would have worked in the executive body of the Department of Trade and Industry.
At the time, they were working on a transparency bill, aimed in particular at preventing an investor from secretly acquiring stakes in listed companies via shell companies.
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