Angela Kelly banned from sharing secrets by King Charles, sources say

Angela Kelly ‘is made to sign gagging order’: Late Queen’s dresser and confidante is banned from sharing Royal secrets by King Charles in exchange for a new grace-and-favour home in the North, sources say – after she was forced out of the Windsor estate

  • It is understood that a Palace aide has presented Angela Kelly with an NDA
  • This would make it difficult to share Royal secrets for future earnings
  • Ms Kelly has already published two books about her previous Royal role

The King has struck a deal with the late Queen’s dresser banning her from sharing Royal secrets in exchange for a new life in the North.

Angela Kelly, one of the late Queen’s closest confidantes, has been allowed to choose a new grace-and-favour home after being forced to move out of the Windsor estate.

But The Mail on Sunday understands that a senior Palace aide acting for the King presented Ms Kelly with a new NDA – non disclosure agreement – to sign as part of the deal.

A well-placed source dubbed the agreement a ‘gagging order’ that would make future earnings based on public revelations about the Royal family difficult. Under the terms of the agreement, Ms Kelly is prevented from using the words ‘King’ and ‘Palace’ for commercial purposes.

With the Queen’s blessing, Ms Kelly, has already published two books about her Royal role. It is understood she also had the Queen’s permission to write a third but the new agreement is certain to impinge on that – if not scupper it.

Ms Kelly, 65, helps move her belongings to a removal van in Windsor England

It is understood that the King felt that an updated version of Ms Kelly’s second book, The Other Side Of The Coin: The Queen, The Dresser And The Wardrobe strayed ‘too far’ into revealing intimate details about the Royal Family.  

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Royal dressmaker Angela Kelly, pictured right with her ‘best friend’ the Queen and Anna Wintour in 2018, has been ‘cut off’ by the King and booted out of her grace-and-favour home

In the reprint, published last year, Ms Kelly described the Queen’s behaviour after Prince Philip’s funeral, revealing: ‘I helped her off with her coat and hat and no words were spoken. The Queen then walked to her sitting room, closed the door behind her, and she was alone with her own thoughts.’

Now the King is understood to have made a move to honour his late mother’s wishes by providing a home for Ms Kelly while simultaneously protecting her legacy by banning the release of further details. The Mail on Sunday first revealed in April that Ms Kelly, 65, had been gifted a house for life by the King after being forced to move out of the Windsor estate following the Queen’s death.

Last week, Ms Kelly was pictured moving her belongings out of her Grade II-listed grace-and-favour cottage in Berkshire. 

The Liverpool-born dresser, who was awarded the Royal Victoria Order in 2012, told friends on Instagram that she was moving north, saying: ‘Getting ready to say goodbye. I am moving at last to my new home, which I will be able to call My Home at last.’

‘I’m moving to the Peak District just further on than Sheffield so not too far away from the family… Looking forward to my New Adventures.’

We can now reveal that the deal was orchestrated by the Palace in accordance with the King’s wishes that the family would not be hit by any embarrassing revelations.

While Ms Kelly was a firm favourite of the late Queen, she was not loved by all courtiers. Palace staff nicknamed her AK47 – after her initials and the assault rifle – on account of her relentless work ethic combined with a notorious temper.

The King has struck a deal with the late Queen’s dresser banning her from sharing Royal secrets in exchange for a home

Ms Kelly received the Royal Victoria Order Investitures at Buckingham Palace, in 2012

When the Queen died last September, she was made redundant from her role as Camilla was used to working with Jacqui Meakin, the Queen Mother’s former dresser.

 Without the patronage of the Queen, Ms Kelly was told that she must leave her Windsor home and friends feared she would become another victim of the King’s ‘property merry-go-round’. Some even accused him of being ‘ruthless with all the wrong people’.

Ms Kelly seemed to stoke the notion that she was not universally popular. On Instagram last week, Ms Kelly posted: ‘I am too old to worry about who likes me and who dislikes me!’ She famously fell out with Prince Harry by allegedly making it difficult for Meghan to choose one of the Royal tiaras to wear on her wedding day.

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