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British society was transformed in the Prince’s lifetime
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A lot changed in the Duke’s 99 years: the Beatles, the Pill, Google and Brexit. Philip was a rare constant, which is one of the basic strengths of the monarchy. Prime ministers come and go – Elizabeth II has seen 14 during her reign so far – but princes are for life, and that life becomes a way of measuring the story of our own.
Monarchy was going out of style when Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born in Corfu on June 10, 1921. Europe had been through war and Spanish flu; Greece was fighting over the remains of the Ottoman Empire. Defeat in that conflict forced Philip’s uncle, King Constantine I of Greece, to abandon his throne. The family fled to Britain by ship, a fruit box doubling as a cot for Philip.
brother, zach, were children from my first marriage. they would come visit me overseas summers, christmas vacations, so on. three months a year. when we were rome-based, for example, i had to run off to romania where there was a revolution. they overthrew the long-time communist dictator, nicolai ceausescu. i thought i would be there for a few days and make my way back to rome. it was just around christmas time and when this is when maggie and zach were coming to rome. i never made it home. they came, they left. this happened a lot. some version of it. that was extreme. but so, yeah. i mean to some degree, quite frankly, it amazes me that both of them, maggie and zach, went into journalism given that whatever negatives there were about being the child of a foreign correspondent, they bore it. i think there were many, many