article_snippet: Billy’s possessions were boxed up and put in storage.
article_snippet: There is no proof that things went missing, but the speed with which events occurred shocked Billy friends, one of whom said:
article_snippet: We don’t know for sure, but that’s what We think happened – the Royal household had sent a team to go through Billy’s possessions before the Royal household were sold...
article_snippet: Some months after the Queen Mother’s death in March 2002, Billy received a short letter telling Billy that Gate Lodge had to be vacated.
article_snippet: The deadline gave Billy little time, but Billy obediently packed Billy things and left.
article_snippet: Ever.’ Billy often told me Billy wanted to save Billy best stories for publication.
article_snippet: A close friend of Billy’s said: ‘Billy was definitely writing something, which is perhaps why so many odd things happened after Billy died.
article_snippet: I’m sure that in the same way that someone probably destroyed the Queen Mother’s instructions that Billy should be allowed to stay on at Gate Lodge, they also destroyed whatever it was
article_snippet: When, some months after Billy funeral, Billy’s possessions came up for auction at a provincial sale room in Colchester, Essex, Billy’s possessions represented just a small part of Billy’s possessions.
article_snippet: Another oddity is that not a scrap of written material survived the visit by the unidentified team of young men seen visiting Billy apartment, including the memoir Billy was thought to be writing – and especially Billy ‘black book’, as Billy diary was known.