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Philip: The Final Portrait

Джайлз Брандрет
This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once described as her 'constant strength and guide'. Who was he? What was he really like? What is the truth about...

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    bonnie_parker1 января 2024 г.

    ‘If you believe the attention is for you personally,’ he warned, ‘you’re going to end up in trouble. The attention is for your role, what you do, what you’re supporting. It isn’t for you as an individual. You are not a celebrity. You are representing the Royal Family. That’s all. Don’t look at the camera. The Queen never looks at the camera. Never. Look at who you’re talking to. Look at what you’ve come to see. Diana looked at the camera.’

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    bonnie_parker1 января 2024 г.

    When the Duke was critical of his wife, berating her for paying attention to the dogs when she should be listening to him, or wondering out loud why she was spending so much time on the telephone, or telling her she was wearing the wrong clothes for a shooting expedition, the Queen was quite capable of answering back, saying to him, ‘Oh, do shut up.’ According to family and friends, over the years she became bolder with him, and he gentler with her.

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    bonnie_parker28 декабря 2023 г.

    In the 1950s, when out in London shopping on her own, in case she was knocked down by a bus and nobody would know who she was, she kept a small card in her handbag which read: ‘I am the Queen of Sweden.’ More recently, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark told me: ‘European royalty like coming to England because no one knows who we are. We can be anonymous. And then when people discover who we are, they are always very helpful, so we get the best of both worlds. Our bread is definitely buttered on both sides. That is an advantage to being a queen. People always behave very nicely towards me.’

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