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17th September 2021
11:23am BST
As per the BBC, Macfarlane - who first began work on the private application in July - stated "There is a need to enhance the protection afforded to truly private aspects of the lives of this limited group of individuals in order to maintain the dignity of the Sovereign and close members of her family."
Macfarlane has not seen anything regarding the contents of the will, barring the date of its execution and the signatory. As president of the Family Division of the High Court, he is said to be the custodian of some 30 such envelopes, each containing the sealed will of a dead member of the Royal Family.
Though Macfarlane is apparently responsible for a process through which said wills could be made public for the first time in a century, he believes that "whilst there may be public curiosity as to the private arrangements that a member of the Royal Family may choose to make in their will, there is no true public interest in the public knowing this wholly private information".Explore more on these topics:
