Accountant Robert Brown fights to prove he is Princess Margaret's son
Accountant Robert Brown says the pregnancy was hidden and he was given up for adoption
A Jersey accountant is restarting his legal battle to find out if he is the late Princess Margaret's secret illegitimate son.
Robert Brown, 57, said he was prepared to spend up to £100,000 fighting for access to sensitive documents relating to the will of Queen Elizabeth's sister.
He has appointed solicitors to obtain secret court papers, known as a practice direction, about the sealing of royal wills drawn up around the time of Margaret's death in 2002.
Brown believes he was born to Princess Margaret in 1955 and his father was possibly Scottish aristocrat Robin Douglas-Home, who died in 1968. He claims the later stages of her pregnancy were covered up using 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 will show how Buckingham Palace, the attorney general and a senior judge acted together to maintain secrecy around Princess Margaret's will, which he hopes includes his birth details.
Brown's case has been dismissed by lawyers for the royal family in a previous court hearing as that of "a fantasist seeking to feed his private obsession". A spokesman for the queen said: "Buckingham Palace does not comment on the allegations made by Mr Brown".
But Brown insists he has the right to find out if the royal is his mother and has appointed law firm Christian Khan, which claims a reputation for "acting in political cases where individuals bring or defend proceedings against larger organisations, including the state".