The lifting of royal skirts and hoisting of a kilt in a moment of frivolity might not seem much of a scandal today but an incident involving Queen Victoria has caused outrage among the guardians of the Royal Archives.
Archivists have been accused of censoring historians after a row about Victoria and her relationship with John Brown, the gillie with whom she developed a close relationship after the death of Prince Albert.
Julia Baird faced opposition to parts of her account
Julia Baird, an Australian author and journalist, claims that a senior archivist asked her to remove passages from her new book, Victoria: The Queen, that related to a saucy encounter between the gillie and his employer. Baird submitted her manuscript to the senior archivist, Pamela Clark, a requirement under a contract she