It is also the portrait of a remarkable marriage that endured for more than seventy years. This is the final portrait of an unexpected and often much-misunderstood figure. Who was he? What was he really like? What is the truth about those 'gaffes' and the rumours of affairs? Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once described as her 'constant strength and guide'.
It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. The duke told Brandreth that he watched television, “without much pleasure,” but did not watch The Crown, quipping: “I have no interest in soap operas.This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. He said Philip told him: “It’s fucking annoying. All I’ll say is that I’ve tried to help keep it going while I’ve been here,” he said.īrandreth said Philip desperately missed the freedom of being able to drive when he gave it up after causing a crash in January 2019. There’s no point in speculating about it. “There’ll be ups and there’ll be downs, but beyond that I’ve no idea what the future holds. If you think it’s all about you, you’ll never be happy.”īrandreth said Philip wouldn’t speculate on the future of the Royal Family. Remember that the attention comes because of the position you are privileged to hold, not because of who you are. No one is interested in you in the long run. I imagine he shared it with his grandchildren, too.”īrandreth said that Philip loved Harry, admired him for his service career and thought him “a good man.”īut Brandreth said Philip told him more than once: “It’s a big mistake to think about yourself. “‘Give TV interviews by all means,’ he said, ’but don’t talk about yourself.’ What did worry him was the couple’s preoccupation with their own problems and their willingness to talk about them in public. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday.īrandreth said in his Daily Mail article, the first of several by him the newspaper will run this week, that Philip was not perturbed by the fact that the explosive interview screened while he was in hospital.īrandreth said: “The fact that the Meghan and Harry interview was aired while Philip was in hospital did not trouble him.
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