EAN: 9781444769586

PHILIP - GYLES BRANDRETH KARTONIERT (TB)

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 those 'gaffes' and the rumours of affairs? This is the
final portrait of an unexpected and often much-misunderstood figure. It is also the portrait of
a remarkable marriage that endured for more than seventy years. Philip and Elizabeth were both
royal by birth  both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria  but  in temperament and
upbringing  they were two very different people. The Queen's childhood was loving and secure 
the Duke's was turbulent  his grandfather assassinated  his father arrested  his family exiled
his parents separated when he was only ten. Elizabeth and Philip met as cousins in the 1930s.
They married in 1947  aged twenty-one and twenty-six. Philip: The Final Portrait tells the
story of two contrasting lives  assesses the Duke of Edinburgh's character and achievement  and
explores the nature of his relationships with his wife  his children and their families - and
with the press and public and those at court who were suspicious of him in the early days. This
is a powerful  revealing and  ultimately  moving account of a long life and a remarkable royal
partnership.

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