A MAN who believes he may be the illegitimate son of the late Princess Margaret has won an important High Court ruling which could aid his quest to see the contents of the will of the Queen's sister and that of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Jersey accountant Robert Brown, 58, is seeking to prove he is Princess Margaret's secret child and that she hid a pregnancy in 1955.
The royal wills were drawn up around the time of Margaret's death in 2002 and were "sealed" to keep their contents secret.
On Thursday, Brown was granted permission to seek judicial review of a refusal to allow him access under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) to documents he says show there was a "secret judicial process" for sealing Royal wills.
Giving him leave, Mr Justice Phillips said at London's High Court there were "compelling" constitutional reasons to allow Brown's legal challenge to go ahead and that was not altered by a past Court of Appeal observation that his claim to be Princess Margaret's son was "scandalous and irrational".
The judge said the case gave rise "to important points of principle and practice" regarding open justice and the public interest.
They related to how the courts dealt with statutory provisions and rules "in relation to a particular class of litigant".
"I am absolutely delighted," Brown said.
"It is an important day for the fundamental principles of open justice and the rule of law.
"Historically, it has been very clear that the monarchy should not have secret communications with the court.
"I am delighted that I have got this far and constitutional issues have been reopened and the points I have raised have been recognised as arguable."
Of his claim to royal parentage, he said: "Hopefully I am not a nutcase. I am either right or I am wrong."
Brown has said he will never give up the battle to prove his royal heritage.
He believes he was born to Princess Margaret in 1955 and his father was possibly Robin Douglas Home.
He claims that the later stages of her pregnancy were covered up with the use of body doubles and that he was sent to Kenya to be brought up as the child of Cynthia and Douglas Brown in Nairobi.
He believes the documents he wants disclosed will reveal that Buckingham Palace, the attorney general and a senior judge acted together to maintain secrecy around the Queen's sister's last testament, which, he hopes, contain details of his birth.
His claims were dismissed by lawyers for the royal family in a previous court hearing as that of "a fantasist seeking to feed his private obsession".
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