Prince Philip had an 'emotionally intimate' 関係 with author Daphne Du Maurier and visited her '十分な of 疑問s' before his wedding to the Queen, 王室の 専門家 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs

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PRINCE PHILIP REVEALED?

by Ingrid Seward (S&S £20, 384pp)?

On the one 手渡す, he has been 確固に by the Queen’s 味方する throughout her long 統治する. On the other, he appears not to give a damn about anyone else’s feelings and is 傾向がある to gaffes which are いつかs downright unpleasant.?

As a friend of Prince Philip commented: ‘He is not a gentleman, because he doesn’t put people at their 緩和する when he can’t be bothered.’

Like the Queen, Prince Philip is a 広大な／多数の／重要な-広大な／多数の／重要な-grandchild of Queen Victoria. His father, Prince Andrew of Greece, met his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, at Edward VII’s 載冠（式）／即位（式）.

Prince Philip, like the Queen, is a 広大な／多数の／重要な-広大な／多数の／重要な-grandchild of Queen Victoria. Pictured: Philip salutes the Course Officer at the 王室の 海軍の 設立 on July 31, 1947

Even by aristocratic 基準s, Philip’s childhood was distinctly 半端物. The year after Philip was born, his 兵士 father was 宣告，判決d to death for disobeying orders. Although saved from the 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing squad, he was banished from Greece.

From the time Philip was six, his mother 苦しむd 厳しい mental illness. At nine, he was packed off to school in England and barely saw his parents after that.?

His uncle, Lord Mountbatten, had big 計画（する）s for his dazzlingly handsome 甥. In 1939, when Philip was a cadet at the 王室の 海軍の College, Mountbatten cannily 示唆するd Philip entertain the young princesses while their parents 検査／視察するd the (n)艦隊／(a)素早い. Elizabeth was 13, Philip 18.

によれば her nanny, Crawfie, Princess Elizabeth knew almost straight away that Philip was ‘the one’. Philip (pictured 権利), who had served with distinction in the war, 提案するd in 1946 and was joyfully 受託するd.?

によれば The Queen's nannie, Her Majesty knew that Philip was 'the one' almost straight away. Pictured: Prince Philip at the 海軍の College in Greenwich

Although he was marrying the world’s most 適格の heiress, Seward （人命などを）奪う，主張するs Philip was 十分な of 疑問s about what he was getting into.

の直前に the wedding, he went to stay in Cornwall with the beautiful 小説家 Daphne du Maurier. Their 関係 was ‘emotionally intimate’ though not 性の but, at the end of the 週末, he told her: ‘I don’t want to go 支援する, I want to stay with you.’ Du Maurier told him not to be silly: ‘Your country needs you.’

There were a few happy, carefree years for the young couple but, after King George VI died in 1952, Philip gave up his 海軍の career to become 十分な-time consort to the new queen. He ガス／煙d at the archaic way things were run at Buckingham Palace: ‘Philip was 絶えず 存在 squashed, snubbed, ticked off,’ によれば his friend マイク Parker.?

Most woundingly of all, his children had to take the 指名する Windsor, rather than Mountbatten.

Prince Philip was 恐らく unhappy with the way Buckingham Palace was run when he first married the Queen. Pictured: Prince Philip visiting the Mediterranean (n)艦隊／(a)素早い

When it comes to fatherhood, Philip’s 記録，記録的な／記録する is decidedly patchy. The Queen’s cousin Margaret Rhodes told Seward that the Duke was wonderful with small children: ‘It was when they grew and developed their own personalities that Philip seemed to lose 利益／興味.’

The Duke was 決定するd to toughen up his 極度の慎重さを要する son and 主張するd he be sent to Gordonstoun, the hearty Scottish school that Philip had …に出席するd. Charles 絶対 loathed it. By the time Charles left Gordonstoun, he had learned to put on a 勇敢に立ち向かう 直面する but ‘the little boy who cowered when his father raised his 発言する／表明する still lurked under the surface’.

Father and son are now much closer and Philip 完全に 認可するs of Camilla.

He was a much better father to Princess Anne, his favourite, who is as 堅い and fearless as he is. No one could fault Prince Philip’s かかわり合い to his 役割.?

Prince Philip 明らかにする／漏らすd by Ingrid Seward (S&S £20, 384pp)

By the time he retired from 王室の 義務s in 2017, 老年の 96, he had undertaken more than 22,000 単独の 約束／交戦s and 637 overseas 小旅行するs.

The Queen has called him ‘my strength and stay’ and Seward paints a picture of a 大部分は happy marriage.

When her husband is in a 激怒（する） about something, the Queen, like many wives, 簡単に tunes out.

In the public mind, Prince Philip is characterised by his 悪名高い gaffes. He appears to have a particular dislike of the Welsh singer Tom Jones. ‘What do you gargle with, pebbles?’ he asked, going on to call him ‘a 血まみれの awful singer’.

Seward trots briskly through all the women Prince Philip is rumoured to have had an 事件／事情／状勢 with, 主として actresses or aristocrats.

While she 譲歩するs he has a roving 注目する，もくろむ, she 主張するs there isn’t ‘a shred of 証拠 of a physical 関係 ... but the stories will never go away’.

Seward tries to be scrupulously fair about the Duke of Edinburgh but 結論するs he is 最終的に ‘unknowable’.

When asked by Fiona Bruce on his 90th birthday if he had been successful in his 役割, he replied: ‘I couldn’t care いっそう少なく.’