EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Downing Street WhatsApp messages at the Covid Inquiry alarm …

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Downing Street WhatsApp messages at the Covid Inquiry alarm royal archivists worried about the lack of written material for historians from younger members of the Royal FamilyBy Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 19:24 EDT, 1 November 2023 | Updated: 20:25 EDT, 1 November 2023 The profusion of Downing Street WhatsApp messages at the Covid inquiry alarms royal archivists worried about the lack of written material for future historians from younger members of the Royal Family. A Windsor Castle archivist whispers that as they catalogue the mountains of letters and documents of the late Queen, as with Prince Philip, they reconstruct a personal history that scholars of the future can rely on. However, she says that the younger royals prefer emails to writing things down and often resort to social media (which is heavily secured and encrypted). There is no protocol for retaining such material. Suggestions that one be introduced have fallen on deaf ears. Historians of the future could be in for a hard time. Former special advisor at 10 Downing Street, Dominic Cummings, giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Tuesday At Tuesday night’s leaving party for V&A chairman Sir Nicholas Coleridge he accepted plaudits, like a frog swallowing
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