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Four books about this family. Every claim checked.
You already hear the stories every day. These books tell you which parts are actually
on the record — the judgments, the filings, the statements — one claim at a time, in large print.
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How to read any of them
Every entry carries one of three marks, so you always know what you are holding.
On the recordA document exists. A judgment, a statement, a filing, a broadcast — dated, and named underneath the entry.
Not on the recordThe claim goes around; nothing checkable supports it. That is not the same as saying it is false. The book tells you what is on the record instead.
ContestedThe accounts conflict. You get each version, with who said it and where. No winner is picked where the record picks none.
LukeMy opinion, in a labelled box. Skip it if you like. It is never dressed up as a fact.
Book One · New
The Sussex Files: Book One
Fifty things people say about Meghan and Harry — and what is actually on the record.
Fifty of the claims you hear most often, taken one at a time. Each one is set out the way it is
usually told, then checked against the documents anybody can read — and then the book tells you
plainly where it stands.
190 pages, large print, fifty entries in ten chapters
A drawing made for every entry — no photographs, no likenesses
Three questions at the end of every chapter, answered on the same page
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Real pages from Book One
The three marks, explained before Chapter One — so you always know what you are holding.Every chapter opens with a plate drawn for this book. No photographs, no likenesses.An entry as printed: the claim, the record, what stands, and the source underneath.Every chapter ends with three questions, answered from the chapter, on the same page.
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Three entries, exactly as printed
Copied straight out of Book One. Check them yourself — that is the whole point of the books.
No. 313 May 2018On the record
The staged photographs, and who agreed they were staged
The claim Two incompatible versions circulate on royal-news channels,
often in the same week. In one, the pre-wedding photographs of Thomas Markle were ordinary
paparazzi work that a newspaper inflated into a scandal, wrecking a father's place at his
daughter's wedding. In the other, the episode was engineered from the couple's side to give them
a reason to keep him away. Both are assertions about who arranged the pictures.
The record The thing that settles it is the Duchess of Sussex's own
case against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday. Mr Justice Warby's judgment of
11 February 2021 sets out the run-up to the wedding at paragraph 40, prefaced by his note that he
records only what is common ground or clear.
What stands On the record, in a judgment, with the two litigants
agreeing. Neither circulating version survives it. The pictures were not innocent paparazzi work,
and they were not manufactured by anyone on the couple's side.
Source — HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd
[2021] EWHC 273 (Ch), Mr Justice Warby, 11 February 2021, paragraph 40; the Mail on
Sunday, 13 May 2018, as quoted in that judgment.
No. 2418 March 2025On the record
The visa file — a think-tank, a judge, and a sealed record
The claim American commentary and royal-news channels have run this
story in both directions, sometimes in the same week. One version has the Duke about to be
deported over something he wrote in his memoir. The other has the case thrown out and finished.
When documents were released in March 2025, several outlets reported it as the publication of
his immigration records. At least one of them later printed a correction.
The record The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in
Washington, made a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Homeland Security in
2023 and sued when it was refused. Its stated basis was the account of past drug use the Duke
gave in his own memoir, Spare, published in January 2023, set against the questions a US
visa application asks. The case is Heritage Foundation v United States Department of Homeland
Security, number 1:23-cv-01198 in the District Court for the District of Columbia, before
Judge Carl J. Nichols.
What stands On the record, and the record is thinner than either side
says. A judge refused the records in September 2024. What became public in March 2025 was the
litigation paperwork, heavily redacted. No version of the application form was among it.
Source — Heritage Foundation v United States Department of Homeland
Security, no. 1:23-cv-01198, US District Court for the District of Columbia; memorandum
opinion of Judge Carl J. Nichols filed 23 September 2024, published on govinfo.gov;
The Washington Post, 24 September 2024; Reuters and CBS News, 18 March 2025.
No. 416 May 2019Not on the record
The hospital on the certificate, and the rumour that refuses to die
The claim that Archie Mountbatten-Windsor was not born as the Palace
announced and the register records, and that the birth documents are therefore false. The claim has
no identifiable originator. It circulates on royal-commentary YouTube and on anonymous social
accounts, and in April 2024 it took the form of a screenshot presented as a post from the official
Kensington Palace account on X, shared on X, on Facebook and on Reddit, and viewed hundreds of
thousands of times.
The record Buckingham Palace announces the birth on 6 May 2019, in a
statement of two sentences:
What stands the announcement, the certificate and the register agree
with one another, and none of them has ever been altered on this point. The surrogacy claim has no
document behind it, no court record, and no outlet of record. It is not on the record.
Source — Buckingham Palace statement, 6 May 2019; birth certificate as
published 17 May 2019, reported the same day by the Associated Press and by the Press Association;
Snopes fact-check, 22 April 2024.
No invented quotes. No fabricated documents. No fake receipts.
Every quotation was said in public by the person it is attributed to, and the source is printed underneath it.
Try three questions
Every chapter ends with three like these. Tap an answer — the book names the entry that settles it.
Question 1 · Which of these is on the record?
B. Entry 21: the decision is
a letter of 28 February 2020, quoted in both judgments. The Court of Appeal held that RAVEC did
not follow its 2017 policy, and had good reason.
Question 2 · Which of these is on the record?
A. Entry 22: the department said
exactly that on 17 May 2023, and no charges were brought.
Question 3 · Which of these is on the record?
C. Entry 24: what came
out on 18 March 2025 was the paperwork of the lawsuit.
Fifty more — and the numbering carries straight on, from No. 51 to No. 100.
The exit, the press cases, the titles, the screen, the Queen's last year, and the numbers people
argue about. Same rules, same three marks, same large print. You do not need Book One first —
every entry stands on its own.
168 pages, fifty entries, ten chapters
A drawing for every entry, and a quiz at the end of every chapter
Ends with six things that are still not on the record, and says so
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Real pages from Book Two
Book Two carries on where Book One stopped — at No. 51 — with the same three marks.The press cases: a chapter opener, drawn for this book.An entry as printed: the claim, the record, what stands, and the source underneath.Three questions at the end of every chapter, answered on the same page.
The Quiz Book · New
The Royal Quiz Book
Three hundred questions — and every answer points at the page that proves it.
Thirty rounds of ten. Ten rounds from The Windsor File, ten from Book One, ten from Book Two.
Nothing rests on a rumour: where the answer is that a claim is not on the record, the
question says so.
180 pages, thirty rounds, answers straight after each round
Every answer names the book and the entry, so you can check it
A score box for each round, and a total at the back
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Real pages from the Quiz Book
How the book works: thirty rounds of ten, three answers each, one of them what the record says.A round from The Windsor File — ten questions on one spread, large print, a plate at the head.The answers overleaf: the letter, one line on why, and the book and entry where the evidence lives.A round from The Sussex Files: Book Two — the last ten rounds come from the newest file.
The first book
The Windsor File
Everything that actually happened, from Diana to now, in the order it happened.
Almost everything written about this family arrives as a fragment: a headline, a clip, a row about
last week. Fragments are usually true and almost always useless, because a fragment without a
sequence explains nothing. So I wrote the whole thing out, in order.
110 pages, 104 dated entries, sixty-five years, every one sourced
Eight diagrams — one of them settles the "who pays for them" argument
With the printable Timeline, Who's Who and Myths & Facts
$19 at checkout against a $47 list price — the discount is live, which is the only
reason the line through it is on this page.
Real pages from The Windsor File
The marks, explained on page three — before you read a word of the story.Every part opens with a drawing made for the book. Nothing is a stock photograph.Every entry dated, marked and sourced in the margin — so you can check it.Eight diagrams. This one settles the "who pays for them" argument for good.
Or take all four
The Complete File — every book on this page, and everything that comes with them.
The Sussex Files: Book One — fifty claims checked, illustrated
The Sussex Files: Book Two — fifty more
The Royal Quiz Book — three hundred questions, every answer referenced
The Windsor File — 110 pages, 104 entries, in order
The printable Timeline · Who's Who · Myths & Facts
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Who I am, and who I am not
I am not a journalist. I have never worked for a newspaper. I have no sources inside
any palace and nobody has ever leaked me anything. I have never met a single person in these books. I
hold no credential that bears on this subject, and if you ever see me claim one, stop believing me.
What I have is more ordinary, and more useful. I have followed this family closely
for five years, I read the documents rather than the write-ups of the documents, and I check a claim before I
repeat it. That habit is the entire product.
You are not buying access. You are buying the checking, and a promise that nothing in it was made up.
That is a smaller claim than most books on this subject make. It is also one I can keep.
— Luke
Before you buy
Which one should I start with?
If you follow Meghan and Harry, start with Book One — the entries stand on
their own, so you can read them in any order, and Book Two carries on from it. If you want
the whole story from the beginning, start with The Windsor File. The Quiz
Book is for afterwards, or for the person you argue with.
How large is "large print"?
The type is set at 14 point — about a third larger than an ordinary paperback — with generous
spacing, on a cream page that is easier on the eyes than white. It reads comfortably on a tablet, and on a
phone you can pinch to make any page bigger.
What format is it? Do I need an app?
Every book is a PDF. It opens on any phone, tablet or computer with nothing installed, and you
can print it. No app, no account, no subscription. You pay once and the file is yours.
How does it arrive?
By email, within a minute of paying, with a link to download it. If it does not arrive, check
the junk folder first, then write to me at luke@windsorfile.com and
I will send it to you myself.
Is there a paper copy?
Not yet. Every book is set at a standard 6×9 size so a printed edition is possible later. Buy
now and you will hear about it first — updates are included, so a new edition comes to you free.
Does it take a side?
It takes the record's side. Where a claim is on the record, the book says so and names the
document. Where it is not, the book says that too — which is not the same as saying it is false. Where two
accounts conflict you get both. My own opinions sit in labelled boxes you can skip.
What if it is not for me?
Email me at luke@windsorfile.com within seven days
and I will refund you in full, no questions and no forms. I would rather give you your money back than have
you feel sold to.
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