Go on Oprah ? It s madness! No good will come of it: In the most revealing portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh you ll ever read, his friend of 40 years GYLES BRANDRETH says he sympathised with Harry and Meghan - but thought they were wrong
Prince Philip thought Harry and Meghan s interview with Oprah was madness and no good would come of it
Philip was sympathetic to Harry s distrust of media and supportive of his desire to do his own thing
Gyles Brandreth, Prince Philip s impeccably connected biographer, gives his insights into Philip s thoughts
The extraordinary life of Prince Philip: Born on a kitchen table in Corfu, the prince with Danish, German, Russian and British blood who was carried into exile aged just one and overcame the trauma of an absent father and mother to fight for his country
Philip, born in June 1921, was a Prince of Greece but with no Greek blood and in fact had complex background
Family fled Corfu in December 1922 after father, in Greek army, was arrested and charged with high treason
Evacuated on a British warship, he was carried into exile in a makeshift cot made from an old orange box
From being born on a kitchen table in Corfu to becoming the prince consort - the life of Prince Philip
From Greek exile to fighting in World War Two to joining the most famous family in the world - we follow Prince Philip s story
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Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life
Born in Mon Repos on the Greek island of Corfu on 10 June 1921, the longest-serving royal consort in British history was the only son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenbergthe. During his school days at The Elms, an American school in Paris run by Donald MacJannet, he was lovingly known as a âknow it all smarty person, but always remarkably polite.â
In the summer of 1938, Philip was staying with his aunt Aspasia, in Venice. A 2011 book âYoung Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Lifeâ by Philip Eade spells out his childhood mischiefs and how his own father was worried his son might get into âgirl troubleâ when he was only 17.
The newlyweds on the Palace balcony (PA)
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They were the country’s Prince Charming and Fairy Princess and their wedding captured the public imagination in the austere post-war days.
Winston Churchill summed up the occasion as “a flash of colour on the hard road we travel”.
The marriage of Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten and Princess Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey on November 20 1947 provided something of a morale boost.