Do the royals deserve more privacy?

Thoughts prompted by the case of the Duke of Edinburgh’s will

As a trainee solicitor at a suburban law firm in the early 1970s, I often had to draft clients’ wills. That became easier when I came across a small book whose author insisted that wills could be written in short, simple sentences. My attempts to follow that advice did not impress my supervisor, who argued that adding punctuation could only lead to unce…