âSuper cool guyâ: Aussieâs close bond with Prince Philip Dr Erica Myers-Davis, a friend of Prince Philip through the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services, League at Windsor Castle. The Melbourne charity worker had a decade long association with the duke. Picture: Tristan Potter/SWNS Celebrity by Stephen Drill Premium Content Subscriber only An Australian charity worker has revealed how Prince Philip would gatecrash conversations with a pale ale and sausage roll in hand Dr Erica Myers-Davis was in Windsor yesterday to farewell the Duke of Edinburgh. The Melbourne University law student and charity fundraiser got to know him when she started volunteering for one of his favourite charities, the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League when previously based in London.