Princess Margaret allegedly burnt down all of Princess Diana's letters to Queen mother.
Royal author Gareth Russell reveals Margaret destroyed 'hundreds, maybe thousands of others' and added: 'From a historian's perspective, it's horrifying.'
He told Di For Daily podcast that burning letters “used to be the equivalent of aristocrats wandering off like elephants to the graveyard. It's what they did.”
He continued: “A lot of them burnt a lot of letters so for instance, Elizabeth II’s grandmother, Alexandra of Denmark, who was our Queen Consort from 1981 to 1910, had a completely unremarkable private life — nothing scandalous. But she burned the letters.
“Aristocrats did that because they felt that letters sent privately shouldn't ever be [public] — it was a breaking of a code almost. So I think the Queen Mother was fully on board with Margaret doing it.”
He noted that it was devastating that 'people like Diana' were thrown 'into bonfires.'