A group of MPs have demanded restrictions on access to the diaries of Lord and Lady Mountbatten should be eased 'without further obfuscation and delay'. A £2 million heritage grant in 2010 enabled the University of Southampton to purchase the Broadlands Archive, which contains 4,500 boxes of official papers and personal correspondence from major figures in the Victorian era. A cross-party group of MPs has raised concerns over the lack of access to the diaries of Lord and Lady Mountbatten over a decade after they were bought by the University of Southampton. Labour, SNP, Liberal Democrat and DUP MPs have joined other Conservative MPs in signing the motion. The university describes the Mountbatten Papers as an archive of the 'first importance for the study of much of the 20th century', and it includes around 4,000 files of papers of the earl.

Source: Daily Mail July 20, 2021 18:00 UTC