Grandfather, mentor and role model: Prince Philip played a crucial part in Prince William s life
Both of similar temperaments, pragmatic, plain speaking and quick witted, the Duke of Edinburgh saw a lot of himself in his grandson
12 April 2021 • 6:16pm
Prince Phillip and Prince William enjoy the build up to the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final match between New Zealand and Australia
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When the Duke of Cambridge was introduced to Matt Smith, the actor who would play his grandfather in The Crown, at a charity event a few years ago, he was asked if he had any advice.
Espionage at the Edge of Empire Espionage at the Edge of Empire
By BENJAMIN BREEN
by Gregory Afinogenov
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was commonplace to imagine a scientist as a lone toiler in a space of solitary reflection: Darwin on his walks on the grounds of Down House, say, or Caroline Herschel at her late night vigils beside her telescope. This changed, decisively, with the advent of “Big Science” in the early twentieth century. Historians began to re-envision science as an inherently
collective endeavor, the work of teams, corporations, or states. “Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team,” Vannevar Bush declared in his influential 1945 report