The ultimate confidante? Why the royal family have always relied on private diaries to record …

Like her ancestors before her, Queen Elizabeth was diligent in her keeping of a daily diary
Just two days before she died, the late Queen Elizabeth sat down before bed with her fountain pen and private diary to record the day's events, just as she had done thousands of times across her 70 year reign. In keeping with what she once told society diarist Kenneth Rose – that she had ‘no time to record conversations, only events’ – according to an updated biography by Robert Hardman, the […]
The ultimate confidante? Why the royal family have always relied on private diaries to record …