The Secret Feud Between Prince Philip and The Queen Mother | Behind Closed Doors | Timeline

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  • The Coronation in 1953 appeared to be a glittering triumph for the House of Windsor. But behind the scenes there was a three-cornered story of jealousy and rivalry at the highest level.
    On one side Prince Philip was at odds with the Queen Mother over his desire to modernise the monarchy. On the other the old Queen was jealous of her daughter's sudden rise to power. The Coronation was a critical year for the young Queen Elizabeth. She was preparing to undergo the most ancient and important royal ritual, but the two people closest to her, the Queen Mother and Prince Philip had very different ideas about how it should be handled. Philip, the dashing but dangerously modern consort, was anxious that the Coronation should not be simply a stuffy replay of previous reigns. He wanted 'some features relevant to the world today'. But he was fiercely resisted by the Queen Mother and by Princess Mary, who referred to Philip as 'the Hun'.
    The new Queen was caught in the middle. In Coronation Coup, we learn that Mountbatten, who had engineered the marriage between Philip and Elizabeth wanted the family name changed to Windsor-Mountbatten after her accession. Also, while the new Queen largely sided with her mother over arrangements for the Coronation, she backed Philip over perhaps the most important decision to televise the ceremony inside Westminster Abbey. In doing so she set a precedent for television to be given access to the most intimate rituals.
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  • @TimelineChannel
    @TimelineChannel  4 ปีที่แล้ว +170

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  • @TheDiudang5127
    @TheDiudang5127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3037

    He was much more handsome than his sons and grandsons

  • @evelyn6959
    @evelyn6959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    Prince Phillip was related to most of the royal houses of Europe. Queen Victoria was his ggggrandmother. Queen Louise of Sweden was his aunt. Empress Alexandra of Russia was his great aunt. Tsar Nicholas was his second cousin. Empress Alexandrovna of Russia was his great aunt. Queen Alexandra of England was his great aunt. King George V of England was his second cousin. King George I of Greece was his grandfather. Princess Marie Bonaparte was his aunt by marriage. Marquis of Milford-Haven was his uncle George. Lord Louis Mountbatten was his uncle. Princess Alice was his mother. And Prince Andrew of Greece his father. Most here were related by family blood. It's a wonder his blood didn't run absolute blue rather than red.

    • @andrewoliver8930
      @andrewoliver8930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      In breeding.

    • @cjosborne9430
      @cjosborne9430 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andrewoliver8930 MOST HUMANS ARE MORE INBRED THAN THE ROYALS!!!!! From the beginning of history, humans rarely moved more than 5 miles from where they were born. We HAD to marry cousins, since no one else was available. The Royals and the Aristocrats were teh FIRST to know that there was wisdom in increasing the breeding pool. They were able to import or export breeding stock. So STOP being "sniffy" about the Royals. You are basically WRONG!

    • @Petal4822
      @Petal4822 ปีที่แล้ว

      Prince Philip was an impoverished hanger on.
      He wanted to be in charge and be the power behind the throne. When he realised that wasn’t going to happen he consoled himself with affairs.
      He sounded an arrogant and self absorbed individual.

    • @barbaracreel2777
      @barbaracreel2777 ปีที่แล้ว

      Incest

    • @ivaniatausche9321
      @ivaniatausche9321 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andrewoliver8930 46:45

  • @bebeveritas7306
    @bebeveritas7306 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    I’m so glad they televised The coronation. It was such an important moment in time, historical in fact. Great that we can glimpse this ceremony.

    • @jasminespencer3992
      @jasminespencer3992 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It also seems like it was the first global television event, certainly the first mass British television event. Every British person I know who was alive at the time was in front of the TV watching it.

    • @user-er6zk5mt6u
      @user-er6zk5mt6u 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glimpse how much of the people’s money they spent.

    • @E-Kat
      @E-Kat 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ha ha ha!!! The royal family was abolished in 1649!!! The king was executed and government established!! Whose coronation you were watching I don't know!!!
      They managed to fool you so easily!! Poor you!!

    • @E-Kat
      @E-Kat 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jasminespencer3992no, they were not!!!!! They didn't allow to have their brains altered by such constant propaganda, telling them how superior to the rest of us the " royal" family is!!!
      My father in law said no one on his street watched it and they played football in the local park during this time, surrounded by hundreds of friends who were watching them play!!
      Anyone who had any intelligence didn't watch it!!

  • @michaelfrost4584
    @michaelfrost4584 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    As an ex Navy man and a Australian, l loved the man and l believe that's why the Queen loved him soo much because he was real and fun loving. May he R.I.P

    • @E-Kat
      @E-Kat 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      But he did not love her back and was cheating on her openly with his live in lover, Penny!!! ( any any willing woman in Crathie, Ballater and surrounding area )
      Elizabeth knew about it!! They didn't speak for months on end and when queen was asked by a reporter how he is, when he was unwell, she said " I don't ave any idea how he's doing as I haven't seen him or even heard from him on the phone for several months "That was what she'd said in an unguarded moment or maybe deliberately as she was sick and tired of pretending how much in love they were!!

    • @E-Kat
      @E-Kat 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He was fun loving and I know something about it.

  • @susanbrown2909
    @susanbrown2909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +519

    He was witty and handsome in his day.
    I can see how the Queen fell in love with him.

    • @sozbdulrhmanli3300
      @sozbdulrhmanli3300 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      😭 every woman will fall in love with him he was so handsome RIP

    • @gemmamacachor4744
      @gemmamacachor4744 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaqqqaaaa11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111121111111111111111111111111211211122211122111112112111111111111112111211111111111111111112111111111111111112111111111111111111111112111111211121111211 to

    • @incognitonegress3453
      @incognitonegress3453 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thas nazty! He was her COUSIN...yucky!

    • @utahdan231
      @utahdan231 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Very controversial jokes. Very inappropriate.

    • @angiecoers6255
      @angiecoers6255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Why didn't any of the kids looked like him.

  • @MsCarlota19
    @MsCarlota19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1329

    The Queen motber wasn't royal herself at all (her parents were Scottish nobles) but Philip was Royal on both sides of his family- his mother was princess Alice of Battenburg and his father was prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.

    • @carmen47freixas96
      @carmen47freixas96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      His mother was born in England, his dad was from Danish and German blood.

    • @gilliscolgan4356
      @gilliscolgan4356 3 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      Princess Alice was an extraordinary woman.

    • @carmen47freixas96
      @carmen47freixas96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      @@gilliscolgan4356 They said that she was mad, only to cover up their evil, she was probably the only sane one.

    • @zachj61
      @zachj61 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      His mother wasnt precisely 'royal', but certainly noble. It was some generations since any of her agnatic ancestors ruled in their own right (Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse), and even then would be styled 'Grand Ducal Highness', not 'Royal Highness' or 'Imperial Highness', and as such is not royal.
      Royal blood, yes, but not in any legal sense inherited.
      As to his father, he never ruled any country as king, but Philip's grandfather did, but as to whether that could be inherited depends on whos laws and traditions are used. The use of titular 'prince' was continued to Philip, so that seems likely, even when no longer claiming the Kingdoms of Denmark nor Greece.

    • @louiseharper7850
      @louiseharper7850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@carmen47freixas96 Philips mother was profoundly deaf. She was not well, Freud diagnosed her and she was given x-rays to damage her ovaries so that they ceased to produce oestrogen. In other words a form of female castration! Her husband who was the brother of the King of Greece later ran off to the South of France with his bit on the side. This was all done in I believe Greece, not Britain I will add.

  • @maryfifita2327
    @maryfifita2327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +915

    Prince Philip was handsome when he was young. Such a good looking prince.

    • @icicle8384
      @icicle8384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Yes, he was one kind of a man!

    • @katherinoday1458
      @katherinoday1458 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Handsome and an honorable man to the end. Prince Philip was truly exemplary as is his wife.

    • @moniquesmith7138
      @moniquesmith7138 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      OMGoodness, Yes!! Prince Philip was undoubtedly Gorgeous!!!

    • @laraegodwin6008
      @laraegodwin6008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I think that he always cut a dashing figure!! The best looking ninety-nine year old man that I have ever seen

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@katherinoday1458 We won't know that for 100 years at least after the death of the Queen when the State Papers are released to the public.

  • @Wolfknight16
    @Wolfknight16 2 ปีที่แล้ว +746

    This was all the more hilarious when you realize that the Queen Mother lived up to 102 years old (1900-2002). Can you imagine having to deal with your mother in law for that long. Poor man!

    • @tomkellycartoons
      @tomkellycartoons 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @thomasmartin4281
      @thomasmartin4281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      I’m imagining an 81 year old Philip quipping “finally I can control my own future!”

    • @leanderrowe2800
      @leanderrowe2800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      😆😆

    • @FlySpanishMiss
      @FlySpanishMiss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Worse because she was a control freak...Already tried to manipulate the lives of her husband's brothers and effectively her own husband didnt even have much interest in becoming King and she made all necessary arrangements and always pushed him n made all decisions

    • @charlottenorman7237
      @charlottenorman7237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@FlySpanishMiss She also controlled the Queen. See how the Queen dresses now her damn mother is no longer around. She should have gone a good twenty years earlier

  • @maily8388
    @maily8388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +439

    He was not after her money, she found him, head over heels for him.

    • @roolenoir3183
      @roolenoir3183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      HRH said I want him.... and that’s what she got.😉She was sassy!

    • @Hi-xu9xn
      @Hi-xu9xn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Repent of your sins and follow Jesus Christ Almighty

    • @darlonconnor4203
      @darlonconnor4203 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@roolenoir3183me
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      No I’m I’m I’m can ok no lol ok

    • @darlonconnor4203
      @darlonconnor4203 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      L like

    • @roolenoir3183
      @roolenoir3183 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@darlonconnor4203 ded!🤣😂😂

  • @lunastarr1925
    @lunastarr1925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +567

    he was a perfectly sculptured handsome prince

    • @lauralutz4538
      @lauralutz4538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      A gorgeous, Hunk & more impressive than all, a charming, supportive, Christian husband.

    • @Celisar1
      @Celisar1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@lauralutz4538
      Having affairs and said to dominate at home

    • @blueeyes6852
      @blueeyes6852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Celisar1 OH my! I hadn't heard! What are your sources? You have to be careful these days! A lot of mal adaptive persons regurgitate what they've heard and just repeat it without ever even researching it! Can you believe anyone could be such a sheep!?! Sheeple! Hahaha.... 🤔
      So let me know, so I can do some more research! Hey! Have a wonderful day! Oh! Hey, thanks in advance on this help! 😶

    • @janicesnyder9305
      @janicesnyder9305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Greek God

    • @janicesnyder9305
      @janicesnyder9305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@blueeyes6852 I agree, I think the rumors were "much ado about nothing. "

  • @bernadettegrech7303
    @bernadettegrech7303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Indeed, he had the looks of an actor of his time.

  • @janicesnyder9305
    @janicesnyder9305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +812

    To lose your career, to be required to walk two steps behind your wife, and do it with good spirit, he was the epitome of a prince.

    • @laraegodwin6008
      @laraegodwin6008 2 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      Well , women have done it for centuries so why is a man any different ?

    • @fredalwatkins4506
      @fredalwatkins4506 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He admired his wife

    • @louiseharper7850
      @louiseharper7850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      He didn't have to marry the Queen, and he didn't have to lose his career, he did it all voluntarily! Prince Philip was an INTEGRAL PART OF THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY. He was an active working member of the Royal family and he wasn't pushed or shoved about by anyone, he wasn't the type to stand for that. Give him a bit more credit, he was an intelligent, well educated, eloquent Royal who was part of OUR Royal family. His own family were the Greek Royal family who fled Greece after his father's brother, the King of Greece, was overthrown. When he came to England as a child he was sent to Gordonston school in Scotland and grew up more or less penniless. Philip was part of our Royal family for as long as I can remember, I'm 68, and was much loved and respected. He lived a life he wouldn't have been able to had he not married the Queen. He wore the trousers at home.

    • @janicesnyder9305
      @janicesnyder9305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@louiseharper7850 I agree with you totally.

    • @tomflynn8764
      @tomflynn8764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Oh my gawd he was a philanderer!

  • @yvonnestrong3856
    @yvonnestrong3856 5 ปีที่แล้ว +828

    She didn't become queen on the day of her coronation; she became queen in February 1952 when her father died.

    • @bradmiller2329
      @bradmiller2329 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      The King is dead, Long live the Queen. It's been the law for centuries now.

    • @heytherejay04
      @heytherejay04 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      She became queen when her father died, but wasn’t crowned until a year later at her coronation. I’m from the US so I’m not too sure how those things go

    • @bradmiller2329
      @bradmiller2329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@heytherejay04 Since way, way back (Henry I?), English (later British) law has been that the crown passes automatically down a specified line of succession. Usually father to son, or father to daughter (if no sons) (yeah, yeah, new law, but that doesn't kick in until William of Cambridge's kids anyway). The coronation is "just" the public recognition of the 'de jure' status of the new monarch, as well as that monarch's public oath to uphold the "laws and customs", etc.
      In some countries, the succession is NOT automatic, and then you get all sorts of fun things -- civil war, etc.

    • @Brandon-mn1cx
      @Brandon-mn1cx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But why not his wife

    • @bradmiller2329
      @bradmiller2329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Brandon-mn1cx Because unless the King/Prince married his sister, or a VERY close cousin, with no other relatives between them, his wife is not HIS heir to the throne. It can happen, but the odds are very strongly against it, because so many first cousins would have to marry, and then have only one child, that it is extremely unlikely.

  • @alyssajones4368
    @alyssajones4368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +415

    Lol damn. I'm receiving more history about the Royal Family via TH-cam comments than I ever did in school.

    • @nadinecameron7358
      @nadinecameron7358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same.. it's all fascinating

    • @alyssajones4368
      @alyssajones4368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@nadinecameron7358 lol isn't it though!

    • @TBWL829
      @TBWL829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same here. I lived in England in 1983-1987.

    • @alyssajones4368
      @alyssajones4368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@TBWL829 How was England during the '80s? One historical moment I learned was in the year of 1988, Michael Jackson met Princess Diana and Prince Charles just hours away to perform at the Wembley Stadium.

    • @TBWL829
      @TBWL829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was there 6th grade to 10th grade living off the military base. My dad was station on two different military bases.
      So, my view was fun and educational. Our school field trips consist attending live plays, especially at the Shakespeare at Avon. Stonehenge and other places. We learned about the Royal Family, but not The Firm nor the Institution. I wish we would had.
      My friend went to see Prince, he preform there too. I wasn't there when Michael Jackson performed there in 1988, but his monkey was in quarantine because England was extremely strict of rabies. All animals (including household pets) was quarantine for months before they are release to their owner.
      My father made sure we travel majority of England. I was part of Hiking team. We hike (2 days) at different location around England. I mean hike up the mountains.
      Our 10th world cultural teacher made sure we understand the British Politics- Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister. Oh! My goodness...She was a force!
      I remembered Princess Diana and Prince Andrew wife press coverages. The Good, Bad and the Ugly.
      My opinion the Royal Family could easily had handle the local press easily this time around due to pass history. I do believe that the Queen and Philip didn't see the racism of the press would had on Megan. The press was like Twitter.

  • @bigkahuna5477
    @bigkahuna5477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Damn! Philip was fine piece! No wonder Elizabeth fell for him.

  • @ellieeisabella
    @ellieeisabella 3 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    rest in peace, prince philip. thank you for your service to our country & to our queen, we won’t forget you. “grief is the price of love.”🌹🤍🕊

  • @youngandrestlessjean3634
    @youngandrestlessjean3634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +331

    @ 41:59 you see a nun standing behind the queen mother at the coronation. That is Phillip’s mother Princess Alice (Queen Victoria’s granddaughter) who was a Saint in her own right an a beautiful human being. She secretly housed a Jewish family during the Holocaust. God Bless you Princess Alice.

    • @olavwilhelm6843
      @olavwilhelm6843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      she was also a lunatic!! and philip the "first class royal" became prince consort cause of Mountbattens Ambitions

    • @21MarketaDiva
      @21MarketaDiva 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool

    • @christierella
      @christierella 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      She was deaf, stress out & placed in a mad house by her mother. She was a fantastic human being. Phillip's father was the loser that abandoned the family, ran off with mistresses. Princess Alice was a great woman, she took care of the poor, downtrodden, & orphaned. She could read lips in three languages, despite being deaf.

    • @christierella
      @christierella 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Princess Alice was born in Windsor Palace...and died there.

    • @juanagallo9447
      @juanagallo9447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      A Nun, by DEFINITION is a VIRGIN by CHOICE.
      Kudos for HARBORING REFUGEES.
      ZERO KUDOS for doing 0 about Bush Family who sent money to fund Russian Revolution EXTERMINATION of MILLIONS and 0 in Brittain DEVIDING Israel into 2 parts, which gave RISE to TERRORISTS in Palestine, which by the way is a term invented by the Romans 20000 yrs. ago.

  • @Im_so_Retro85
    @Im_so_Retro85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +533

    Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth's marriage/life very much mimics that of Queen Victoria. Her husband, Prince Albert, was also called a foreign, German "Prince from Nowhere" who very much modernized the palace after they married. They both had to fight to be something more than just "the Queens husband". Nonetheless, both served with great dignity until their deaths. There are so many similarities between both men. Amazing.

    • @TheYeti308
      @TheYeti308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I think at times, people forget about the house of Hanover.

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@TheYeti308 And so they should, the Hanoverians were a dissolute and incompetent bunch who never should have been near the crown of the United Kingdom

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Prince Albert as Prince Consort was de facto King because Victoria hadn't a clue about how to be the monarch. He saw the ministers and simply had the Queen sign them. The Prince of Wales is currently de facto Regent although they won't publicly announce the fact.

    • @kristencotty4439
      @kristencotty4439 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      And now Elizabeth is the widow of Windsor, sort of like Victoria, lol

    • @mschuchuJRJF
      @mschuchuJRJF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Very true.History does it repeat itself somehow...

  • @susancunningham7933
    @susancunningham7933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the best looking Royal couple ever and the Queens gorgeous smile has a sweetness like no other.

    • @juliosalazar6924
      @juliosalazar6924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I like the Queen but honestly, she was never a beauty

    • @rayujiueno
      @rayujiueno 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tsar nicholas and empress alexandra also ❤

    • @startracker5895
      @startracker5895 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@juliosalazar6924 I don’t know what Philip saw in her. Apart from the obvious. She was future Queen!

    • @juliosalazar6924
      @juliosalazar6924 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@startracker5895 Exactly

  • @JonnievonHeldreich
    @JonnievonHeldreich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    Everything I watched on Prince Philip since his passing has increased my respect & admiration & unfortunately I can’t say the same for the late Queen Mother

    • @cupcakefairy87
      @cupcakefairy87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Remember the Queen Mother's two nieces Nerissa and Katherine who were locked up in the Royal Earlswood Hospital with no visits or correspondence? And to think she was the patron of Mencap....

    • @shabnamkauser4033
      @shabnamkauser4033 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Exactly
      Thank you

    • @buckeyeschmave
      @buckeyeschmave 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      The more one finds out over the years about the Queen Mother, the less likable she is, going back to her treatment of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. She apparently was the single driving factor in that rift lasting as long as it did.

    • @zzzbbbooo
      @zzzbbbooo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@cupcakefairy87 I'm no fan of the Queen Mother, but I think it unfair to hold her responsible for that. It was a different era and families were told by doctors in those days to institutionalize family members with mental or intellectual impairments. It was what was done then, even if a family could afford to care for their family member at home.

    • @SKBottom
      @SKBottom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      She would have been better suited working in the palace kitchens. That's why Edward called her cookie.

  • @fabricatedreality8218
    @fabricatedreality8218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +574

    Prince Phillip was a handsome man...he was also a great grandchild of Queen Victoria...as is his wife. They treat him as an outsider but he's family!

    • @snoodledumpling4486
      @snoodledumpling4486 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I mean...do YOU know YOUR THIRD cousins? 'Cause I don't know mine. I don't even know if I HAVE any, to be honest. EDIT: Phil and Queenie are third cousins, not second.

    • @shannonfrattura2029
      @shannonfrattura2029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      My grandchildren know my second cousins ,it seems wrong to marry within ones own family BUT it seems perfectly normal and legal for the royals .! Go figure eh! 🙈🙉🙊 🇬🇧❤️🇨🇦🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 🕊👑☮️💟💛♈️🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊

    • @MarianaLopez-dy3rr
      @MarianaLopez-dy3rr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I know my second and third cousins some of my aunt and uncles have grandchildren and great grandchildren and here I am no kiddos.

    • @aprilblossoms4
      @aprilblossoms4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That shows a lot about how snobbish they were. I don’t know how true tv shows like “The Crown” are but if any if it is partly true I am not surprised he got treated like an outsider.

    • @nancyreichenbach2938
      @nancyreichenbach2938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@snoodledumpling4486. I know you posted this last year. How do you not know if you have second cousins? Your first cousins don't have kids? Cause my first cousins had 47 kids in total. They are my second cousins.

  • @lindalala5813
    @lindalala5813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +704

    Prince Philip lived and died in the same castle his Mother Princess Alice was born...I believe he died a happy man. RIP , Prince Philip, thank you for your Service. You have left a great legacy in History.

    • @Whizzy-jx3qe
      @Whizzy-jx3qe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      He was a remarkable man very intelligent. He’ll be sadly missed RIP.

    • @crisgildagarcia993
      @crisgildagarcia993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Very supportive handsome husband

    • @Elenasv64
      @Elenasv64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I dont miss tyrants and criminals
      The stomach jeez

    • @gulmerton2758
      @gulmerton2758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      No, I don’t think he’s leaving a “great legacy in History “. He had a cool easy and protected life thanks to the fortune of his wife’s family (as they say in the film) albeit a few frustrations , courtesy of his bitchy mother in law and his 2 steps behind his Queen status.

    • @SindyJ37
      @SindyJ37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@crisgildagarcia993 yes he was a wonderful supportive husband our Queen deserves nothing less...RIP to a great man

  • @noreenahmed1334
    @noreenahmed1334 3 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    What a handsome man he was and you could still the boyish charm and good looks right into his old age. None of his children had even a quarter of his looks. He was more royal than anyone of them and held an aura of royalty that came before he even married the queen.

    • @wendyburgess2962
      @wendyburgess2962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bull dust. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

    • @cnmrb151
      @cnmrb151 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Wdym "he was more royal"? He was born a prince of Greece and Denmark, what do you expect? of course he was a royalty.

    • @elizabethhestevold1340
      @elizabethhestevold1340 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      As Diane, ...it's the spiritual meaning., That shines through. 🇩🇰🇺🇸🌅📬🇬🇧
      .

    • @Alusnovalotus
      @Alusnovalotus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      William looked much like his grandfather as a young man. Too bad he got bald

    • @mercedesmukati1451
      @mercedesmukati1451 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Prince Phillip definitely looked like his mother.
      I can see glimpses of family resemblance to William.
      The

  • @jolesliewhitten6545
    @jolesliewhitten6545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Thank goodness the coronation was televised. I saw it as a child in my girlfriend ‘s father’s tv store. This American was thrilled!

  • @thelittlebrothers5060
    @thelittlebrothers5060 4 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    Philip very very handsome. He has been a very supportive and friendly husband. Queen is very lucky. He has sacrified and adjusted a lot for his wife. 1 in a million gentle man

    • @olavwilhelm6843
      @olavwilhelm6843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      get real!! he slept around in his good years and the queen who was in love turned a blind eye cause divorce was not an option! i think he is a looser with a macho ego who married money without thinking of the consequences

    • @AmyElizabeth78
      @AmyElizabeth78 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@olavwilhelm6843 Seriously!

    • @standup2982
      @standup2982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@AmyElizabeth78 yes he did, many times.

    • @monicanath4859
      @monicanath4859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@olavwilhelm6843 probably but he really respected his wife, and served her well.

    • @zoeydeu2261
      @zoeydeu2261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@olavwilhelm6843 when and where did he sleep around?

  • @meirwise1107
    @meirwise1107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +900

    Philip was more royal than the Queen Mother and even the Queen who was royal through her father. Both Philips parents were royal!

    • @MacKenziePoet
      @MacKenziePoet 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/o2SfGJo017I/w-d-xo.html

    • @valerieloney5346
      @valerieloney5346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      Queen mother was no beauty

    • @renataostertag6051
      @renataostertag6051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      You said it! Yes, Philip was royal on both sides. Queen Elizabeth is not, only her dad was royal. Her mum was a commoner.

    • @athenarockabilly6245
      @athenarockabilly6245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Thank you I just posted that on another comment and you are so right prince Philip was more royalty than his wife and that queen mother was not she had the audacity to comment on prince Philip who like you said he was royalty from both sides of his family and if his family where not exiled from Greece he would have been the rightful king unlike his wife who became queen by accident not by right as her uncle abdicated

    • @sharellrogers2718
      @sharellrogers2718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@athenarockabilly6245 I was about to leave the same comment. The queen mother had no royal blood but walked around looking down her nose at Philip. I think it was about jealousy. Jealous that she was a commoner and Philip was more royal then even her daughter the queen , jealous her daughter was now queen moving the queen mother out of her seat and jealous that the queen had a loyal and faithful man by her side. When people envy you and know you are a better person then them (not just status, but heart and soul) they will do what they can to try to tear you down . I really like Queen Elizabeth and i feel for her. This lady has been tired for a long time.

  • @Ettibridget
    @Ettibridget 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    My goodness, the queen mother sounds dangerous! A monster-in-law! She didn't like Diana either. And poor Philip had to put up with her for all these years.

    • @jonjonwp
      @jonjonwp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      She was also very cruel to Wallis Simpson.

    • @iceprincess1898
      @iceprincess1898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jonjonwp Well, she might have blamed Wallis Simpson for the death of George VI since she was one of the reasons Edward VIII abdicated in favour of George VI and it was believed that the stress of being king lead to Bertie's heavy smoking.

    • @jonjonwp
      @jonjonwp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@iceprincess1898 Then the queen mother must also have known Edward threatened suicide if Wallis didn't marry him. She wanted to back out as she realised she would be vilified.

    • @shirleygravesande5421
      @shirleygravesande5421 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jonjonwp You are correct. However Wallis still got the brunt of it and was vilified by the Royals and the British public.
      The only time in life she was invited back to the UK was to accompany her deceased husband for his burial.

    • @barbaraclayton2171
      @barbaraclayton2171 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@iceprincess1898 She was THE reason he abdicated.

  • @moniquesmith7138
    @moniquesmith7138 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Too bloody bad for the Queen Mum, he was Extraordinarily Gorgeous and Truly Classy!

  • @khamir49
    @khamir49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1066

    Call me naive, but every time I go to a funeral, memorial service, or like now, when a famous person dies, I learn so much more about them after they're dead, that it constantly amazes me. There certainly was a lot more to Prince Philip than I ever knew.....born royal, rescued, put in a fruit crate, was homeless, his mother became mentally ill, his father abandoned him, he gave up his royal titles, and married the most significant Queen (monarch) of the 20th or the 21st century, raised a family, for over 70 years. In one sentence in a nutshell.

    • @han3572
      @han3572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      Don't forget he chose to serve in the Navy. Served exceptionally during WWII

    • @Hi-xu9xn
      @Hi-xu9xn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Repent of your sins and follow Jesus Christ Almighty

    • @javiersanchezvelasco3040
      @javiersanchezvelasco3040 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Hi-xu9xn call me by your name :)

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@han3572 What else could he do? Greece didn't recognise him and forbade him and his family to enter the country, Denmark was occupied and besides, his Uncle Dickie had already put him into the Royal Navy and therefore he did NOT volunteer.

    • @han3572
      @han3572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@teddybirmingham7608 he wasn't conscripted. His mother had been institutionalised and his father was quite preoccupied...

  • @marie-francoiserama7052
    @marie-francoiserama7052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +599

    It's amazing to learn the aftermath of Prince Philip. He is a person who had known the makeshifts of childhood being an orphan, he had known misery, war and poverty. May he rest in peace.

    • @TheCandiceWang
      @TheCandiceWang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I totally get why he became how he did. So much adversity to harden him so young. Small correction - he was only half-orphan. His mum lived till 1969 I believe :) but since she was taken away from him and he was alone so young, I get why you'd call him an orphan :) God rest Philips soul.

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      That's not in the least unique, at least he struck the jackpot and ended his life surrounded by doctors in a palace.

    • @Veronica-bc6pp
      @Veronica-bc6pp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And yet he drank babies blood and did god know what with kids

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The only reasonable, tangible misery he experienced was being banged up in Gordonstoun which was and is like Colditz Castle for children. As to poverty....get a hold of yourself, he has never been short of cash in his life. MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of people suffered in the war including members of my family. I actually rather like Philip and met him a number of times, I can tell you for certain that he'd laugh out loud at some of the rose tinted bilge on this thread.

    • @heatherdequetteville9184
      @heatherdequetteville9184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@Veronica-bc6pp Are you insane? Don,t answer, rhetorical question.

  • @sofukinfisticated
    @sofukinfisticated 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I absolutely love that the public loved this man

  • @RachelLWolfe
    @RachelLWolfe ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The irony of the Queen Mother being "anti German", and holding this against Prince Philip, as if he can help his ancestry, is laughable. The royal family, going by the surname Windsor, has German roots, and the name was only charged to Windsor in 1917. 🙄
    The Queen Mother was a control freak... just couldn't stay out of the way. Saying a four story mansion was too small for her to reside in is also laughable. Entire families live in smaller and less grand accommodations.

  • @01princessrocks
    @01princessrocks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    Prince Philip was definitely handsome but the Queen is gorgeous too
    Why is everyone overlooking that? She looks so pretty on her wedding!

    • @Lifeisasecret-
      @Lifeisasecret- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Yes, the Queen was such a very beautiful woman.🇬🇧🌹

    • @gokarengo
      @gokarengo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think she was beautiful...not pretty but unique

    • @NajSinghs
      @NajSinghs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      #CalmDown Could it be that people are "praising" bc HIS name is in the TITLE of this video?? 👀 (rhetorical question) 👀

    • @karinalombrozo3257
      @karinalombrozo3257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      more like a handsome woman

    • @SmartStart24
      @SmartStart24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I always thought she was so cute and pretty too

  • @CajunA79
    @CajunA79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    Prince Philip was so handsome!

    • @oceanbay3690
      @oceanbay3690 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      At his young ages only!

    • @justiceempire1170
      @justiceempire1170 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because that time he was slowly getting ill and growing old.

    • @cymbolichuman433
      @cymbolichuman433 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I noticed that Harry looks a lot like prince Phillip.

    • @glen7318
      @glen7318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@oceanbay3690 Not at all.. he was a fine looking man into old age. Not many people reach 99, and look as well as he did....

    • @oceanbay3690
      @oceanbay3690 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@glen7318 At 99 he looked like a satan himself

  • @none05550
    @none05550 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I have highest respect for Prince Philip. It makes me sad that he was not given any importance or visibility by the Queen mother though he sacrificed a lot . They did not even let his children take his last name. Queen mother was very ambitious when her husband was the King n was jealous of her own daughter becoming the Queen...

    • @dianaverano7878
      @dianaverano7878 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      After the Queen Mother died, Queen Elizabeth made a legal document to change the surname of her children who are not direct heirs to Windsor-Mountbatten to make room for her husband.
      Something we all understand.
      I saw a documentary about that here on youtube.

    • @doloresedwards3346
      @doloresedwards3346 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      His legacy, other than his 4 children was to the boys clubs and the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme

  • @Lakridza67
    @Lakridza67 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I met him once at the Brisbane Commonwealth games. I’m sure it was 1982 or so. He was very lovely to all of us who participated in the opening ceremony.Rip Prince Phillip🙏

  • @cathyborrege5373
    @cathyborrege5373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +470

    The myth that Prince Philip somehow wasn't "first class royalty" is bizarre. Unlike Queen Elizabeth, her husband's ancestry is solid bedrock European royalty. Prince Philip is a direct descendant of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert, Catherine the Great & the Tsars of Russia, the German Kaisers, the Kings of Denmark and Greece and is related to virtually every royal house in Europe including Sweden, Norway, Holland, Romania and Spain. Prince Philip's uncle was Lord Mountbatten a great grandson of Queen Victoria, his Grandmother Victoria of Hesse's sister was the last Empress of Russia, his father Prince Andrew of Greece's first cousins were King George V of England and Nicholas 11 of Russia and his first cousin Princess Marina of Greece was married to the Queen's uncle the Duke of Kent. Forensic scientists even used Prince Philip's DNA to identify the skeletal remains of Russia's last Royal Children. Prince Philip is several times directly related to Queen Elizabeth sharing the same great great grandmother Queen Victoria and great great Grandfather King Christian 1X of Denmark. Queen Elizabeth's great great Grandmother Queen Alexandra of Britain and Prince Philip's grandfather King George I of Greece were brother and sister. Prince Philip was chiefly raised in France, Scotland and in England mostly under the sponsored guardianship of his British uncles the Marquess of Milford Haven and Lord Mountbatten. Prince Philip served in the British Navy throughout World War Two and was no "foreigner" to England.

    • @radhasen.animalwelfare.5644
      @radhasen.animalwelfare.5644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Cathy Borrege
      Thank you for educating us...
      I was just reading about his mother who went to work hands on during world war I and her sad destiny and her years locked away in an asylum by her mother and family.
      Yes Price Phillip was a true blue royal...
      And a very handsome man in his youth!

    • @Linda-lq5nd
      @Linda-lq5nd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Cathy B,
      Thank You for stating factual bloodline! I have repeatedly been trying to clarify that Prince Philip & Queen Elizabeth II are both the great great grandchildren of Queen Victoria of England! ❤

    • @carolkoch7400
      @carolkoch7400 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cathy Borrege Cscccccccccccccccccc
      cccccccccccccccccccccs

    • @gaynormossop1678
      @gaynormossop1678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Thank you thank you thank you it's so frustrating when these facts get overlooked and are not reported correctly you've put everything down succinctly well done

    • @olavwilhelm6843
      @olavwilhelm6843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      yes but he was without a penny had a father without country who slept with every woman that could not escape and had a mother that spent quite some tomes in mental asylums just to become a nun in the end ...not quite a picture book family and certainly not first class royal

  • @lenas9487
    @lenas9487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +348

    The Queen mother, having been such a traditionalist should have followed tradition & moved out when her daughter became Queen!!!!

    • @iamme5567
      @iamme5567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Yeah I know. She was such a drama queen, apparently she cried that Elizabeth was now the head of the family.

    • @carolroberts4614
      @carolroberts4614 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The Queen Mother lived at Clarence House.

    • @amylh322
      @amylh322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I have definitely learned things about her that are disappointing and paint a very different picture than I was originally given about her.

    • @vickiepaul8258
      @vickiepaul8258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Like some, she followed only what suited her, when it came to traditions, that is Elizabeth's mother. Possibly Elizabeth wanted her there at the Palace, she was only 25, and probably thought she had much more time before becoming Queen.

    • @louiseharper7850
      @louiseharper7850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      She lived in Clarence House, and her castle on the Isle of Mey in Scotland, but have you seen how big Buckingham palace is???? It has probably got a hundred or more staff. Why should she have moved out? She was a Queen too, and a very good Queen at that.

  • @nancyoleksy
    @nancyoleksy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I love that the Queen Mother said Clarence House was to small. It would have been just her living there right? How much room does one older woman need? I did like the Queen Mother but when you hear the way she treated Prince Philip kind of puts a damper on it.

    • @merricat3025
      @merricat3025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      She sounds like a dominating mother who didn't want to give up control

    • @charlottenorman7237
      @charlottenorman7237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      She wanted Marlborough House but Philip said to her, how can you afford to run such a huge house lol

    • @sherryd3299
      @sherryd3299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'll bet you aren't aware that the Queen Mother allowed Charles and Camilla to use her private castle in Scotland as a secret love nest when Charles was married to Diana.

    • @merricat3025
      @merricat3025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@sherryd3299 how sweet of her. Helped her grandson commit adultery.

    • @MauriceRivers415
      @MauriceRivers415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@merricat3025 No wonder he was always close to his grandmother. She spoiled him with affection when he was a child (due to QE2 being gone all the time), then helped him commit adultery.

  • @eljodefreitas2417
    @eljodefreitas2417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    I always sympathized with Prince Philip. The queen mother had been warmly welcomed into the Royal family but she didn't appear to extend that generosity to others coming into the family. That was my gut feeling.

    • @sherryd3299
      @sherryd3299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Most of the royals are cold to the newcomers. Princess Diana knew that the Queen Mother allowed Charles to use her private castle in Scotland as a secret love nest for himself and Camilla Parker Bowles. She was not always very nice.

    • @ASimon-ut2xe
      @ASimon-ut2xe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      She was an old harridan

    • @ritakisil1669
      @ritakisil1669 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Now that you said it, yes, the Queen Mother was not so welcoming

    • @belindamay8063
      @belindamay8063 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@ritakisil1669 The Queen Mother knew a great deal more than we do - about the times she lived in, and the people she had dealings with. (In any case, the study of History isn’t about sorting people into ‘goodies and baddies’. It’s about learning as much as we can. ) The Queen Mother was thinking of her daughter first of all. She aware of the fact that Elizabeth had never had a boyfriend, had almost never been alone with a young man, and was quite inexperienced when Philip began courting her. Which he did as soon as it was proper. (She was 13 when they first met, he was 17.) Philip had no real money and no country. That beginning may have led to a very happy ending - but you have to understand the Queen Mother’s fears . They were quite reasonable at the time.

    • @ritakisil1669
      @ritakisil1669 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@belindamay8063 i hear you Belinda...a great service to the country, we're only onlookers but in the end, it was a happy union and Prince Philip made Queen E happy

  • @singing4him54
    @singing4him54 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    The sparkles on those jewels even in black and white are absolutely stunning👑💎💫

    • @justacrocodile9486
      @justacrocodile9486 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes I thought so too, when the light caught them they sparkled wonderfully, very eye catching. The Queen does have some magnificent jewellery and I love to see Catherine wearing some of the necklaces and tiaras on loan from the Queen. Catherine looks even more stunning wearing those jewels.

    • @roolenoir3183
      @roolenoir3183 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I sometimes just type in Royal Jewels just to look at them. They are so sparkly! I need to look up the history of tiaras and diadems. 🤔🙂 I haveADHD....

    • @sharonswift8668
      @sharonswift8668 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stolen from other countries!!!

  • @susanwilliams1594
    @susanwilliams1594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    He is still handsome, merely weathered, first beauty retired. His loyalty and integrity are outstanding. I wish we had more film of him exercising his wit. He can be very funny. And I met a fellow once whose aristocratic family were well known to Prince Philip, whose serious interest in the little boy’s happiness in hospital made a huge difference to the boy’s entire family who had been temporarily blighted by politics in West Africa. The account was inspiring because it bore witness to the depths of Prince Philip’s appreciation of the welfare of others.

    • @pamelahall2791
      @pamelahall2791 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      l8

    • @dracofunneh2498
      @dracofunneh2498 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've always had a long laugh everytime i hear his jokes...not a loud laugh,but a giggle then a laugh...😄😄😄 he is one of the funniest man in my opinion...

  • @xaratanga5
    @xaratanga5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    I love when I watch these videos about Prince Phillip, they always talk about 'who was he' like they didn't know. His mother was a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria and she was born at Windsor Castle. Her mother, Princess Victoria of Hess later became the Marchioness of Milford Haven and she was a well known and beloved member of the family. His father was minor member of the Greek and Danish royal family. He also moved to the UK to live with his Grandmother and Uncle, and had a career in the British Navy. So they knew exactly who he was, they just keep asking that question in these videos for the drama that it adds....

    • @hensonlaura
      @hensonlaura ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Media CREATES controversy to sustain itself.

    • @hamerjohn
      @hamerjohn ปีที่แล้ว

      Prince Philip did'nt speak a word of Greek

    • @ingridally5036
      @ingridally5036 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hamerjohn .

    • @greggprice3609
      @greggprice3609 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you, people love drama.

    • @lilymae7516
      @lilymae7516 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Appreantly Prince Phillip met the Queen before she was even 13, which meant they knew him since he was a child! Love how the documentaries always contradict each other. She apparently feel inlove with him at age 13 but they met at prior family events 💀 ☠ 💀

  • @davidrowen7867
    @davidrowen7867 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    One thing about Queen Elizabeth: she has never embarrassed herself. Which is pretty amazing since she has been in the public eye for 70 years! Very classy.

    • @francisaugistino701
      @francisaugistino701 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh? There’s quite a few missteps both professionally and personally. She wasn’t close to a perfect queen. In the end, the proof is in the lives of her children.

  • @bravo9899
    @bravo9899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Queen mother didn't fancy him, but Prince Philip stood by his daughter's side until the end. RIP dear prince of Greece 💐💐

    • @ritahorvath8207
      @ritahorvath8207 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was a great man. Rest in peace Duke of Edinburgh. 🌹 🎩

    • @annewalden3795
      @annewalden3795 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is possible the Queen Mother was a typical mother in law ie always picking fault with her daughters husband . I think she may have come to terms with the Duke of Edinburgh later in her life when she had a perspective of his contribution to her daughter and the country over many years.

  • @fionafulton1788
    @fionafulton1788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +347

    Philip has always been a stalwart part of the royal family. He's done this country proud, standing by Her Majesty the Queen for all these years. An amazing man - grumpy or not!

    • @MacKenziePoet
      @MacKenziePoet 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/o2SfGJo017I/w-d-xo.html

    • @TheCandiceWang
      @TheCandiceWang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Agreed! Grumpy or not! I concur, lol. Lord keep him

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We won't know any of that for at least 100 years

    • @bellasee1
      @bellasee1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sounded like a Classy,Cool and Clever Man.He was Her Rock.

    • @Thepc425
      @Thepc425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Grumpy? He has a wicked sense of humour!

  • @jacquelinegillespie6886
    @jacquelinegillespie6886 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    He was the best thing that ever joined the royal family.. He is sorely missed God bless him..

    • @user-er6zk5mt6u
      @user-er6zk5mt6u 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True

    • @E-Kat
      @E-Kat 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Omg!! You completely don't know anything about him and his love for actresses in London!!! The Kray brothers were his friends!! Almost everyone knows about it!
      Queen sent a telegram with condolences when one of the Kray brothers died and it was on the bbc news, which I had the pleasure of watching!!!
      Maybe in another 100 years time people will know the truth about this family!!

  • @jilly-rv9sk
    @jilly-rv9sk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Now I have the highest respect and admiration for this former Naval officer about whom I knew so little. RIP.

  • @stanthology
    @stanthology 4 ปีที่แล้ว +358

    If the Royals had not televised the Coronation, that would have been a big mistake.

    • @CajunA79
      @CajunA79 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I agree!!

    • @Jossianne19130
      @Jossianne19130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It was televised because of Prince Philip!!!

    • @louiseharper7850
      @louiseharper7850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The BBC televised the Queens coronation in 1952, it was nothing to do with Prince Phillip.

    • @louiseharper7850
      @louiseharper7850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What planet do some of you come from???

    • @stanthology
      @stanthology 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@louiseharper7850 They gave away these cool mugs. For the coronation.There was a block party. Everyone was invited.

  • @chriscarson7384
    @chriscarson7384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    The Queen become monarch in 1952, when her father died, not her coronation a year later.

  • @rleitros9378
    @rleitros9378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Elizabeth became Queen on 6 February 1952. She was crowned on 2 June 1953. There's always a delay between accession and crowning. A coronation is an enormous and complex event to plan.

    • @ivaniatausche9321
      @ivaniatausche9321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He had most of his mother’s qualities, his mother Queen of The Helenics was a supirior person that wistood inhumanities from her mother one of Queen Victorias granddaughter

    • @markpoole8868
      @markpoole8868 ปีที่แล้ว

      and hugely expensive fot the taxpayer which has to be paid whether we want these morons or not

  • @joearkle1327
    @joearkle1327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    He served our queen and country well in his life time thank you sir R!P prince Phillip

  • @sakshiayer9132
    @sakshiayer9132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    I don't think Prince Philip married Queen for her wealth... He was really in love... And he was a stable navy officer.. It's really sad when people always think people marry only for money..

    • @joycehewitt7648
      @joycehewitt7648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Picture Yourself so poor say the same thing. All Prince Philip with The Queen.

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If it suits you to think that then on you go. I didn't know the navy had stables

    • @elviras.6258
      @elviras.6258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@melianna999 How would you call yourself - some one or no one?

    • @chandru.r8033
      @chandru.r8033 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No Kingdom on Earth , can ever survive as to Moral Means
      - why.?
      Because , Kingdoms are inbuilt by - Selfishness .
      All Governance , were tried out
      But all are from the -
      " SAME GUTTER." *
      Future , Expects ,
      MORAL GOVERNANCE.
      Nothing Else.*
      Every thing is simple
      If you know it.
      Future is bright for Humanity
      Be Bold, Confident and
      Helpful to Mankind -
      We are sure to win the Race.*
      CHEERS "

    • @nate1717
      @nate1717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@melianna999 He was literally the son of a prince and grandson of a king.

  • @AnywhereButHome_Japan
    @AnywhereButHome_Japan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    10:24 That loving gaze she gave her very attractive groom. 💕

  • @marycopeland4049
    @marycopeland4049 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    The Queen Mother seemed jealous of Prince Philip; she no longer could be the primary influence in her daughter’s life and resented that. Her husband was a reluctant king, not meant for that position. She seemed to feel so entitled, so domineering and determined to control.

    • @MauriceRivers415
      @MauriceRivers415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      And her 2nd daughter was the same way, both Leos. The irony that a commoner became Queen Consort because of her brother-in-law's abdication, and one of the snootiest members of the family.

    • @belindamay8063
      @belindamay8063 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MauriceRivers415 King George V and Queen Mary were so keen for Elizabeth to marry their son ,they practically forced the issue. She had turned him down twice before. They really liked her and welcomed her. So why are people denying it ?

    • @adrienneclarke3953
      @adrienneclarke3953 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MauriceRivers415 futher irony, she got Queen in her name more than anyone else. Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother

    • @stacynels4
      @stacynels4 ปีที่แล้ว

      To Keep Tradition...

  • @albatross5466
    @albatross5466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Little trivia. The House of Windsor is a fictitious name. Windsor was selected at random because it sounded good. In the run up to WWI the monarchy decided that their German heritage wasn't going to go over well, so they changed the family name from Gotha to Windsor.

    • @RachelLWolfe
      @RachelLWolfe ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Which is why I find it ironic that the Queen Mother held Prince Philips German ancestry against him.

    • @l.n.3372
      @l.n.3372 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's not totally random. Windsor castle exists lol

    • @albatross5466
      @albatross5466 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@l.n.3372 The castle yes. They chose the name for their royal family name (The House of ...). Sort of like you being named Joe Smith and deciding that Hooters is a real place so I'll just call myself Joe Hooters.

    • @sunrise-vx5ld
      @sunrise-vx5ld ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@RachelLWolfe and her mother-in-law mary of teck was german too

    • @franziskaohrt294
      @franziskaohrt294 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you ask me the Royal family is more German still than they like to be 😅 and it's not to be blamed on Princes Philip ❤ Queen Victoria her husband... Mary of Teck just to name a few ... If they had not changed the name from Saxe Coburg Gotha ...to Windsor... It would still be clear...

  • @glorecitatan2436
    @glorecitatan2436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    The most handsome prince.......

    • @greatworld8230
      @greatworld8230 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@melianna999 Any proof please? Because what I know of him is completely different from what you are saying. He was a good man.

  • @ReginaTeca
    @ReginaTeca 3 ปีที่แล้ว +395

    Prince Phillip was a gentleman in the best british way...RIP charming Prince !

    • @bryanjason1980
      @bryanjason1980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello how are you doing 😊

    • @bethanyhuo3993
      @bethanyhuo3993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Not at all, he was full of inappropriate jokes.

    • @flasheart3817
      @flasheart3817 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How do you know. Did you know him personally??

    • @LeastTango
      @LeastTango 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You do know he was of Greek and Danish parentage right?

    • @mintywebb
      @mintywebb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A war hero, yes. A racist, yes. Like everyone a mixed bag.

  • @terminallumbago6465
    @terminallumbago6465 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    It’s good that the coronation was televised. The reality is, despite what the traditionalists thought, the Monarchy had to modernize in order to keep up with the times and remain relevant in a new world that was (and is) constantly changing, and basically survive. Time is change, and everything needs to change with it if it wants to survive.

    • @monicaharvatt633
      @monicaharvatt633 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And there is news reel footage of George VI’s coronation. Cameras were going to be present. Seems a good fit.

  • @ginnyhogan6386
    @ginnyhogan6386 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I vividly remember watching the coronation on tv in Minnesota when I was 11 years old! Amazing!

  • @abutterfly7975
    @abutterfly7975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I don’t think Churchill should have had ANY say in where they should live and other things. He should have kept his nose in the area he was hired to take care of.

  • @mada_mada_
    @mada_mada_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    “That damn fool Edinburgh”
    What a cool nickname!

    • @two-moonz2953
      @two-moonz2953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Very apt considering his reputation

  • @bolachester7125
    @bolachester7125 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    This is the only Royal i saw as a high school student in York, close to Yorkminister Cathedral.
    The Duke was a very handsome man. He definitely was an epitome of Elegance and stood by the Q

  • @lolaboden2641
    @lolaboden2641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I’ve seen several documentaries on the Queen mother. Not one person ever said she was a nice person. If I recall she admitted to that fact.

    • @belindamay8063
      @belindamay8063 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The well-known quote is ‘I’m not as nice as people think.’ As far as I remember. The trouble was she had a naturally sweet face.

    • @lolaboden2641
      @lolaboden2641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@belindamay8063 that was exactly what she said.👍

    • @ritahorvath8207
      @ritahorvath8207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      On the other hand I can imagine that Prince Philip got along with her quite well after a while.

    • @KingJackson11355
      @KingJackson11355 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      She was a very nice lady

  • @arethawalker1724
    @arethawalker1724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Bless his heart! 2-steps behind the Queen. Rip Prince Phillip🙏🏾

    • @ritahorvath8207
      @ritahorvath8207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Supporting her over such a long time. Rest in peace Duke of Edinburgh, the most experienced plaque unveiler in the world. 🌹 🎩

  • @taucetus3657
    @taucetus3657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    This is very normal. 'in-laws' is another word for 'unavoidable headache'

    • @moyaleeful
      @moyaleeful 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Very normal indeed

    • @noorgonzalez1076
      @noorgonzalez1076 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😩😳🤦🏻‍♀️💯🙇🏻‍♀️

    • @noorgonzalez1076
      @noorgonzalez1076 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      “🤕UNAVOIDABLE HEADACHE” 🤕

  • @teresamokua9756
    @teresamokua9756 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Very nice documentary! I am not British, but have learnt abit on the history of the royal family. The queen mother was really a piece of work! She always seemed like a sweet old lady, but now we learn she was a scheming and savory old lady. Poor prince Phillip. He really had to jump through hoops to matter in that household. Its a good thing he was steadfast in his fight to be recognised, and not ignored.
    Those coronation outfits look heavy!

    • @TheCandiceWang
      @TheCandiceWang 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I have that same impression too. I remember when she died, and I had no idea she was so unpleasant. Seems the Crown does her justice :( that's not a compliment. Thank GOD ELIZABETH turned out more like her dad x

    • @lizeggar2421
      @lizeggar2421 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Queen Mother loved her husband dearly and was very angered, on his part as he did not want the role of King. He only became King because his brother abdicated. She did, however, take her role as Queen extremely seriously and not least because the King had a very bad stammer which was made worse when he had to speak in public.
      A very good film to watch is The King's Speech.
      If this video interests you, you will love The Kings Speech.

    • @sherryd3299
      @sherryd3299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Queen Mother allowed Charles and Camilla to use her private castle in Scotland as a secret love nest when Charles was married to Diana.

    • @teresamokua9756
      @teresamokua9756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sherryd3299 She was of the old, that a man was allowed to have a wondering eye, and the wife was to just look the other way. I have this feeling she didn't like Diana very much.

  • @some_metalhead
    @some_metalhead ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I always got the feeling that Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother was jealous of her daughter’s reign. Obviously she was devastated by her husband’s death, as anyone would be, but I think another part of her was upset at no longer being the main woman in power and in the spotlight.

    • @cpcolgate6903
      @cpcolgate6903 ปีที่แล้ว

      The queen's mother was an insufferable witch...jealoua and domineering!!#

  • @fabricatedreality8218
    @fabricatedreality8218 4 ปีที่แล้ว +660

    Prince Phillip was more royal than his mother in law

    • @etcetraetcetra3173
      @etcetraetcetra3173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Indeed. That's why she's clinging way too long to her supposed power.

    • @Linda-lq5nd
      @Linda-lq5nd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@etcetraetcetra3173 ,
      He's talking about the Late Queen Mother(his mother in law) not his wife Queen Elizabeth II! ❤

    • @wendyraines8011
      @wendyraines8011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True. She was.

    • @andrewgibbon-williams7974
      @andrewgibbon-williams7974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      That's more or less true. But always remember that ALL Sottish aristos can trace their ancestry back to Mary Queen of Scots; which includes the Queen Mum. The Dukes of Hamilton, et al, continue to think of themselves as more royal than this German lot. That's fact.

    • @Jo92Sch
      @Jo92Sch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      He is more royal than his wife 🙃

  • @barbaraschain9260
    @barbaraschain9260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    It's a pity the Queen Mother didn't realise the man Phillip was. Moreover, it should have been more about Elizabeth's happiness and not her prejudice over his German background. It appears she kept her negative opinion about Phillip until she died. What a shame...

    • @daisyroots8926
      @daisyroots8926 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      She didn’t like Germans, unyet her mother and father in law were Germans... what a small minded woman

    • @lorij6796
      @lorij6796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not German.

    • @h2okopf415
      @h2okopf415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She, the Queen Mother, was herself on her Mothers side of German/Duch ancestry: Bentinck.

    • @KH-zi7gp
      @KH-zi7gp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Maybe she did realize that and kept his spirits down because he was a threat. She’s a true monster in law 🥴

    • @alisondishington1559
      @alisondishington1559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I’ve heard n read over the years that the Queen Mother wasn’t a very nice person at all. She thought she was above everyone else.

  • @corvindasari9189
    @corvindasari9189 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The queen was so beautiful gorgeous very blast and Prince Philip was a very very handsome man. They’ve both have made a lovely stunning couple ever.

  • @madhavihullur
    @madhavihullur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    He was the best husband to Queen 👑. She is so lucky for 70 yrs of marriage. He always.. sacrificed his desires.
    Sacrificed his surname, career, didn't show EGO at all😭

    • @ritahorvath8207
      @ritahorvath8207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A true role model for all husbands supporting their wives. Respect ❣

  • @Marblehead631
    @Marblehead631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    How can the Queen's mother say he is a foreigner if they were cousins and had the same grandmother. She doesn't like Germans? Aren't they are Germans as well?

    • @larrytucker8717
      @larrytucker8717 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      He was to her, The Queen Mother, but she was just as much, she was Scottish you can't say she hated Germans bc her husband's family was mostly German, Danish, Spanish, French, but mostly in the last 2or3 centuries they were mostly German & Prussian & Denmark & Greece thru Prince Phillip thru his Mother Princess Alice of Battenburg and his father Prince Andrew of Greece &Denmark

    • @kaylouisecook366
      @kaylouisecook366 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      EXactly! German was a bad word back then, but she lost sight of the fact that there was German blood/heritage from way back/intermarriage of German cousins(Vic/Albert) etc......!

    • @dunzxoxo
      @dunzxoxo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      They were 3rd cousins. Queen Victoria was their great, great, great grandmother. Queen Elizabeth is from Queen Vic's son and Prince is from the daughter

    • @sellaloftieeaton4098
      @sellaloftieeaton4098 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The

    • @misskitty6297
      @misskitty6297 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Queen Mother was a Scot

  • @bonniericica6895
    @bonniericica6895 4 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    Mother in laws can be intrusive indeed!

    • @chocoholic832
      @chocoholic832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      How very true!

    • @jadzia2098
      @jadzia2098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chocoholic832 🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @CaAnPeSe4ever
      @CaAnPeSe4ever 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oh yeah, how well I know that! 🙄

    • @skippy5685
      @skippy5685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was very lucky with mine...🙏

    • @sandrauhlein4317
      @sandrauhlein4317 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed

  • @harrystocks6681
    @harrystocks6681 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    He comes from much more prestigious linage than so called Windsors. They were lucky to get him.

    • @ukmary1968
      @ukmary1968 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      And the same for Diana

  • @fernandaenos7773
    @fernandaenos7773 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    They definitely had some in common! Both lived a long life !

  • @Axel-ll2jp
    @Axel-ll2jp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    Philip is also descended from Queen Victoria making him more royal than the queen mother

    • @tomhermens7698
      @tomhermens7698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wrong.

    • @malcolml309
      @malcolml309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@tomhermens7698 Actually, you're wrong.
      Through his mother, Philip, was a great-great grandson of Queen Victoria. Through his father, Philip, was a nephew of the King of Greece (he was 6th in the line of succession at the time); he was also through his father, a member of the Danish Royal Family.

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And?

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@malcolml309 The Danish Royal family were German and the kings of greece changed as often as one changes one's socks.

    • @malcolml309
      @malcolml309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@teddybirmingham7608 Fair enough. But that's really beside the point.
      Philip, was MORE royalty than the Queen Mother.

  • @mevvg7919
    @mevvg7919 5 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    What a handsome man was Philip!!!, no one looks like him!!!

    • @Muchuch9187
      @Muchuch9187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mercedes Stephens They have his ears 😂

    • @kaidosbuddyagaindoberman9119
      @kaidosbuddyagaindoberman9119 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Certainly they were a good looking couple. What happened with the kids tho esp Charles and Anne. They def didn’t inherit the looks

    • @ayjamay
      @ayjamay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Well the house of Saxe-Coburg.... I mean Windsor is extremely inbred. They all look bug-eyed like Queen Victoria.

    • @21MarketaDiva
      @21MarketaDiva 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You know two pretty people make ugly babies lol

    • @21MarketaDiva
      @21MarketaDiva 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ayjamay lol omg 😀😀

  • @rrrahhj268
    @rrrahhj268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This was so wonderfully told, I can't believe I sat through this, am usually impatient and give up on longer videos.

  • @gilliantill1214
    @gilliantill1214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    The Queen mother ruled until George died.She expected to be in charge of her daughters reign,But she had Prince Phillip to contend with.

    • @belindamay8063
      @belindamay8063 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @ Gillian Till. That is a common myth. Actually, she was afraid of Philip’s overbearing personality vis-a-vis her gentle daughter.

    • @barbarachippel3142
      @barbarachippel3142 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, but she should have moved on with her own life and let the Queen 👑 and Prince live theirs. I loved my mother-in-law but there is no way I could live with her for 50 years even in a 750 room Palace.

  • @guambyguambelle1864
    @guambyguambelle1864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +385

    It certainly takes a strong person to have had such a crazy start and absent parents, and manage to come out relatively normal. Say what you will about his possible straying, he was otherwise extremely loyal to QE and gave her unequivocal support. May he RIP. 💔

    • @chaoswitch1974
      @chaoswitch1974 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      There's zero evidence that he cheated.

    • @joeythechin8870
      @joeythechin8870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Prince Philip, I found out through Ancestry.com and 23andME was my 5Th cousin on my Mother’s side. I know that it’s a distant connection, but May he Rest in Eternal Peace!!✝️✝️✝️🙏🏻🙏🏻

    • @greatworld8230
      @greatworld8230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@chaoswitch1974 Exactly. Ever wonder why the queen wanted his unwavering loyalty and devotion to be emphasized at his funeral even though Prince Philip himself said he didn't want any eulogy at his funeral? If his wife says his loyalty and devotion to her was unwavering, who are we to say otherwise as if we know the dynamics of their relationship better the couple themselves.

    • @mdbritton9424
      @mdbritton9424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      No kidding !!!!! People forget what he went through !

    • @letitiadungavel6367
      @letitiadungavel6367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Indeed l Have The Greatest Respect for The Late Prince Philip He loved his Queen He Followed his Duty A MAN of Honour And My greatest Respect only Son Of The King Of Greece Steadfast Strong @And Faithful to Our Greatest Majesty Our Queen God Rest His Soul. Just A Shame About His Eldest Son. Princess Anne Now Definitely Her Fathsrs Daughter And Edward And Sophie A Credit to the Queen And Country Thankyou For Them All who. Have Honoured Our QUEEN And Country And long may She Reign letitia

  • @littleogeechee223
    @littleogeechee223 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The Hartnall white wardrobe was beautiful, but it looked so old-fashioned, more 1838 than 1938....

  • @katarzynamariamuszynska2811
    @katarzynamariamuszynska2811 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    So its looks like prince philip was more Royal then his Mother in law

    • @soniavadnjal7553
      @soniavadnjal7553 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That is certain. He wasn't "minor" royalty at all, but equal to the British RF. It wasn't his fault that revolutionaries in Greece banished its monarch, as they did in Italy, as they had done years before in Russia.

    • @satan_rex_inferorum
      @satan_rex_inferorum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@soniavadnjal7553 And France

    • @sherryd3299
      @sherryd3299 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes he was but he lost his title and was penniless which didn't endear him to his inlaws.

  • @lindastorey6685
    @lindastorey6685 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I read somewhere that the Queen mother was difficult to say the least,and she was reluctant one who insisted she had the title queen Elizabeth the Queen mother.

  • @PJTubes2
    @PJTubes2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +235

    Queen Elizabeth II was head over heels check out the thirst at 10:23 the Duke was a handsome man in his day.

    • @toogeeky4u
      @toogeeky4u 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      ThatJohanna yes! She was very smitten with him!

    • @paulinejoycecaguioa7528
      @paulinejoycecaguioa7528 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @array s ikr

    • @dolphineachonga8724
      @dolphineachonga8724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      array s 😁😀😂whyyyyyyyy.... At least he isn't balding as fast.

    • @dolphineachonga8724
      @dolphineachonga8724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ThatJohanna Oh my goodness.. The way she checking him out😍! Thirsty Queen indeed lol.

    • @alvaroayalakunze5727
      @alvaroayalakunze5727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      yes, and she was certainly average looking. Lucky royal girl.

  • @alexandria62753
    @alexandria62753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    What a very colorful life.......and the rest is History...RIP Prince Philip......

    • @carlosfigueroa790
      @carlosfigueroa790 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All. People are Royal!!! Like myself! Cheers from Central America. Guatemala City.

  • @mizera_mykle
    @mizera_mykle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Of all my years enjoying Queen Elizabeth ll, my most delighted moment just now occurred.
    In the video the lovely Princess Elizabeth is seen with her new handsome husband and others posing for their wedding photos.
    At the 10:57 mark we see the ever so proper Princess trying to shift her half mile train by...
    *KICKING IT!*
    😅😂🤣🤣🤣 OMG, this is so dear and I can just hear her mother losing her mind because everything must always be so prim and proper and kicking one's wedding wardrobe in to place is horrifyingly wrong.
    I dearly love this moment!

  • @radhasen2604
    @radhasen2604 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    He was not only stunning but a strong man with his own ideas and strength of conviction.

  • @andrewmiller4885
    @andrewmiller4885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    A most unusual genetic heritage . Prince Phillip was hardly Greek though . Born on a Greek island that he left when he was about 2 years old . Many of his relatives back in Greece though spoke fluent Greek regarded themselves as Greek orthodox in faith and were totally assimilated into the Greek culture and customs as they ruled in Greece as princes and monarchs . Most of them were originally from Denmark. Phillip may have had German and Russian in him as well . He was certainly a mixture genetically which is why he was so devilishly good looking .

    • @noorgonzalez1076
      @noorgonzalez1076 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      💯🙇🏻‍♀️💯

    • @mickey5779
      @mickey5779 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes, until it was high time that the so called "monarchy" was kicked out of Greece by Greek sovereigns for good reason. They served their purpose for what it was worth. It was high time, however, that they move on. The concept of Danish, British and German monarchs is a northern European quirk and concept.
      Greece hasn't had an Emperor since the fall of the Byzantine Empire and they certainly didn't need a Royal family to take them through the 20th century.

    • @lizeggar2421
      @lizeggar2421 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      His mother became a Greek Orthodox nun in later life.

    • @cjosborne9430
      @cjosborne9430 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Oh, for Pete's sake Andrew, make up a better story. They were NOT descended from Greeks. They did not speak Greek. Philip's grandfather (King George I of Greece) was the SON of King Christian IX of Denmark. George was ALSO the BROTHER of Queen Alexandra (wife of King Edward VII) and great grandmother of the present Queen. They were BLUE-EYED, BLOND LUTHERANS who spoke Danish and English (and provided excellent monarchs or spouses for monarchs). There was NO country of "Germany" until 1871. Philip's ancestors were SCANDINAVIAN not "German."
      Elizabeth and Philip are DOUBLE cousins; both descended from Queen Victoria and from King Christian IX of Denmark. Christian IX was born in 1818 and Victoria was born in 1819. Christian IX delivered monarchs (or spouses of monarchs) to Denmark, Greece, England, Russia, Poland, Luxembourg, Norway and Spain. If Victoria was the "grandmother" of Europe, Christian was in the running for "grandfather" of Europe.

    • @MsFlieder
      @MsFlieder ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hmm,good looking 🤔

  • @danilamonteiro8746
    @danilamonteiro8746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    Prince Philip must be soooooo happy that his mother in law had lived for freaking 102 year!!!!!! JESUS CHRIST HAVE MERCY

    • @dross2172
      @dross2172 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      LMFAO

    • @ayjamay
      @ayjamay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I thought the same thing. Lol

    • @pamelaevm880
      @pamelaevm880 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      LMAO right!?

    • @pamelaevm880
      @pamelaevm880 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think this is the best comment I've seen on any TH-cam site for a long while

    • @leskeith4314
      @leskeith4314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🤣🤣🤣😄🤣

  • @Daledavispratt
    @Daledavispratt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Keep in mind that most of these people predicate their statements with "I think". None of these people were inside of Philip's head, or the Queen Mother's head, either. Since both have passed on very little of what is said in this video can be called fact, merely opinion.

    • @ritahorvath8207
      @ritahorvath8207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I guess the two of them have gotten along pretty well.

    • @barbaraclayton2171
      @barbaraclayton2171 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You are so right. It is easy to judge people I am sure they didn't tell others what they were thinking.

    • @bamboozozoo8852
      @bamboozozoo8852 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ritahorvath8207 i don’t believe so… because even biographers tried to ask him to talk abt his mother in law but he has declined again and again. And there’s an article i read by royal insider that even the tensions that existed btn charles and Philip was partly caused by queen mother. Also other claims say during early days of the marriage she called him a hun… it was until the 80s is when people heard queen mother say something nice about Philip.. but up until the the 2010s, whenever Philip was asked about his mother in law, he declined to say anything.

    • @hensonlaura
      @hensonlaura ปีที่แล้ว

      Good comment, needed to be said.

  • @simifisopaialii
    @simifisopaialii ปีที่แล้ว +9

    REST IN PEACE PRINCE PHILLIP! Sending ofas and alofas to the family

  • @calabresimanfredo4103
    @calabresimanfredo4103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    why does there seems to be this intense rivalry within a family? having said that Prince Philip is a very handsome man

    • @duchesspipay9148
      @duchesspipay9148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      The Queen Mother was a conservative woman and Prince Philip was someone that is progressive at that time.

    • @lumarei1
      @lumarei1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Tanmoy Debnath I hope no one say that after your death.

    • @Propfaqs
      @Propfaqs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He was very handsome. Can you blame those dowdy old women who just wanted to wear their tiaras and give the back-handed wave to the ‘subjects’? Frump SUPREME!!!!

    • @kingsleyperera9655
      @kingsleyperera9655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you see the SAME FACE IN BUS/TRAIN STATION YOU WOULDN'T EVEN NOTICE !!!

    • @Hi-xu9xn
      @Hi-xu9xn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Repent of your sins and follow Jesus Christ Almighty

  • @ML-jw4cd
    @ML-jw4cd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    And how lucky we are to have that video footage!

  • @user-xv9pb1fs5w
    @user-xv9pb1fs5w ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I see Prince Philip's smile in William's. Strong genes indeed.

  • @luisfedericosala1354
    @luisfedericosala1354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Prince Philip was the first one to modernize the British Monarchy.
    Thank God, he had a strong character to put in her place, his mother in law.
    The Queen mother was the architect of the disastrous marriage between Diana and Charles.
    Now both of them should be arguing in heaven and God trying to keep peace between them.
    Prince Philip, a great man (RIP) 👍🌷

    • @sherryd3299
      @sherryd3299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband tried to modernize the royal family several generations before Philip.

  • @nancyhobson9710
    @nancyhobson9710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    A heavy responsibility for a woman of twenty five or so

    • @teddybirmingham7608
      @teddybirmingham7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Millions of pounds and an army of servants helped

  • @chattisimo1239
    @chattisimo1239 6 ปีที่แล้ว +503

    Shame, Shame, Shame! You say nothing about Philip being the great grandson of Princess Alice, the daughter of Queen Victoria. Just as the Queen is the great grand daughter of Prince Edward, the son of Queen Victoria. The Queen and Prince Philip are cousins, so he is not some cast off Royal---Philip is descended from the British Royal family just like his wife!!!!

    • @dopechick4955
      @dopechick4955 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Chattisimo123 cousins? Well that’s interesting. Gross too

    • @carolineliane2341
      @carolineliane2341 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yes... they all related to each other. 1st cousin married off other Royal then their descendant married back into the family. It's quite strange but.. I am sure that they wanted their own Blue Blood to reign in. Austria, Russia, Scandinavia, Italy and where else can't you dig out, They are not connected to each other.

    • @Tmanaz480
      @Tmanaz480 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      FDR and Elinor were cousins.

    • @lynnmiller1287
      @lynnmiller1287 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      princess alice is the grand daughter of queen victoria. prince philip is princess alice's son.

    • @bodiddlymitchell5877
      @bodiddlymitchell5877 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Phillip had royal blood, just not English royal blood.

  • @number8485
    @number8485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The Duke of Edinburgh became a dynamic and marvellous consort to her Majesty the Queen. Without him far less might have emerged
    among all her amazing achievements and it is unthinkable that there could have been tensions with the Queen Mother.