who want change. with scandals swirling around her sister margaret threatening to tarnish her reign, the queen must assert her power, sacrificing the happiness of those she loves. february 1952. elizabeth ii has been queen for just a few days, following the death of her father, king george vi. shortly after the king s death the queen s uncle holds a dinner party at the house in hampshire. lord louis mountbatten played a key role in the life of his young nephew philip. when philip is a child the greek family are deposed and they flee to exile and his father has no time for him. louis mountbatten takes over as philip s guardian and so he sees him as his son really. lord mountbatten had always had domestic ambitions for his . what has this damned fool got to do with the name of this house? queen mary s husband, george v, was the king who d begun the house of windsor. queen mary goes to winston churchill and said this is what mountbatten is plotting. mountbatten
Own children. i m just a bloody amoeba, he o his masculinity. and there s more humiliation to come. when all this turmoil is going on, prince philip at least has one thing which he can cling to, one place where he can feel sort of safe, which is clarence house. prince philip s idea is we stay at clarence house and you work from buckingham palace. but tommy lascelles, the secretary and winston churchill, the prime minister, overruled him. the queen agrees and moves her family into buckingham palace. adding to the duke of edinburgh s frustration is the fact that when they arrive at buckingham palace, still living there of course is his mother-in-law. the queen mother, queen
Top of the landing and charles making a salad dressing. i thought it was a nice thing to do. just to show, you know, they re different but not so different. they re still family people. and the other one was to see her taking prince edward into the shop at balmoral to buy him an ice cream. would you like to go and get one? one of the golden rules had been that their conversation was not to be recorded when they were out and about doing public events. token as a memento of your visit here. though the public saw and heard them in a way which i think was entirely new. the public are ecstatic. they never believed that the queen, prince philip, and their children, could be just like them. huge ratings. i think 24 million people in britain watched. and then the extraordinary thing about it, the puzzling thing, is that now you cannot see it at all.
Philip and elizabeth are a golden couple. they re young, they re beautiful. already they have a very practiced double act. but behind the scenes the people around the queen can sense that he s restless. philip is struggling with living in the shadow of his powerful wife. her idea was that she would wear the crown but he would wear the trousers. he organized the home. he decided where the children should go to school. all the domestic matters were decided by prince philip. here is a young, spirited man, huge energy. his whole world becomes circumscribed and of course he does itch for a bit of freedom.
Unit. in a public display of commitment to her husband the queen honors philip with a more senior title, elevating his status within the royal family. when he married the queen he was prince philip of greece and he was made the duke of edinburgh. but as a direct result of this controversial trip to the commonwealth the queen made her husband a prince of the united kingdom. that s when he became prince philip. we don t actually know what went on inside their domestic lives because everybody is magisterially discreet about it. shortly after that two more children were born, prince andrew and prince edward, living proof they had a solid relationship. but the royal family is soon under attack again, and this time the criticism is leveled at the queen.