However, it has never been proven that he cheated on Elizabeth II
“I would have had a happier and easier life if Prince Philip, instead of coming uninvited to my dressing room, had gone home to his pregnant wife that night.” These are the words of Pat Kirkwood, the highest paid stage actress in London in the 50s of last century and one of the women with whom the husband of the British Queen has maintained friendly relations during his long family life.
He met Pat a year after he married Elizabeth II, revealing a new biography of him. The author of “Prince Philip Revealed – a man of his age” is the royal correspondent Ingrid Seward, who has written books for other members of the monarchical family. According to her, the Duke of Edinburgh had a close relationship with at least 12 women after he married Elizabeth in 1947, but it has never been proven that he cheated on her.
The book says that Philip was taken to the popular actress in 1948 after her performance by a photographer friend. The company later goes to a club where the prince
does not stop dancing with Pat
and after this
they go together
in the apartment
of the photographer. For many years, Kirkwood struggled with rumors that she was Philip’s mistress. Before she died in 2007, she passed on her personal correspondence with him to the royal biographer Michael Thornton, and it was her wish that the contents of the letters be revealed only after the prince’s death.
All the royal biographers are unanimous that whatever the truth about the rumors about his connections, he has certainly always enjoyed the company of
beautiful and many
women younger than him,
points out Seward.
His first such friendship was with Princess Alexandra, Elizabeth’s cousin and bridesmaid at their wedding. Unlike the queen, she is interested in sailing and the prince invites her on cruises with him. When their voyages became more frequent, there were rumors of a love affair and a rift between Alexandra and her husband.
In 1987, evidence emerged of a close friendship between Philip and the Duchess of Abercorn, 25 years his junior. The most serious of them is a photo on which
the prince is only
with a towel around his waist
and put his hand on Sasha’s waist, which is in a swimsuit.
The Duchess would later admit that they had been close for more than 20 years. This was certainly not a full-fledged relationship. I didn’t sleep with him, even if it looked like that. It’s complicated and simple at the same time. He needs a friend and someone to share his intellectual pursuits, ”explains Sasha.
Another such thrill is Penny Romsey, Duchess of Mountbatten of Burma, who is the wife of his godfather Norton. She is 32 years younger than the prince. The two became a carriage racing team in 1994 and toured the country together. The Duke supported her when Norton left her briefly in 2010 because of a love affair with a fashion designer.
A year earlier, Penny and Philip were filmed laughing in a car and riding a motorcycle. It is said that to this day she continues to visit the 99-year-old prince at the Sandringham mansion, where she moved to live, renouncing royal duties. Even she managed to persuade him to stop driving after causing an accident last year in which two women were injured.
The list of his girlfriends also includes actresses Sally Ann House, Merle Oberon and Anna Massey, as well as Helen Cordet, with whom he has known since childhood and cares even when she marries. In addition to becoming the godfather of her two children, Philip also pays their school fees after she divorces and it is understood that they were actually born out of wedlock. Then
there are suspicions that
their father is the prince,
but Helen claims that these are ridiculous gossips and she conceived them from a French pilot. The rumor of the existence of his illegitimate children was also spread by Princess Diana, when their relationship was worst after her divorce from Prince Charles. In a media appearance, she talked about several of Philip’s illegal heirs and vowed to find them, but died in an accident a few months later.
According to Ingrid Seward, most of the scandals involving the British queen’s husband are due to the fact that he has always been at war with the palace staff and refused to communicate with reporters. One of the few times he agreed to comment on the issue of his girlfriends was in 2006 during a television interview. “Every time,
when I talk to a woman, be
claims I slept with her,
as if she had no opinion on the matter. I’m quite flattered that a girl my age might like me. This is absolute nonsense, “he said.
“The fact that Philip loves the company of beautiful women has not prevented his marriage to the queen from becoming a solid relationship in which they both get along well. They have certainly gone through difficult times, but even if something was missing in their marriage, it is certainly not the respect they have for each other, “Seward wrote. Her research has shown that Prince Philip never manages to get used to his secondary role in the palace.
When he learns the news that his young wife is to become Queen of Great Britain, he is shocked. The news of Elizabeth’s father’s death reached them in Kenya. He looked absolutely crushed, as if his whole world had collapsed on him, says his friend Mike Parker, who is with them.
Returning to London, Philip took on the role of supporter of the Queen. He was initially promised that he would be able to return to the Navy, but this never happened. “It was terribly difficult for him and at times unbearable. In the Navy, he commanded his own ship, he commanded, and in the palace, everything in his life was decided by someone else, ”explains Parker. One of the biggest blows to Philip is the decision that
their children will bear the surname
of the queen, not his
Then, furious and deeply offended, he said, “I am the only man in this country who is not allowed to give his name to his children.”
In 1956, the two friends set sail for Australia, where the prince was to take part in the opening of the Olympic Games in Melbourne. A 4-month journey through various countries of the British Commonwealth is a small compensation from the Queen for the sacrifice her husband makes by giving up his career in the Navy. However, the trip is overshadowed by a scandal that Parker has a love affair. The American press reports that the Duke of Edinburgh is also in a relationship with another woman. But
the queen quickly
extinguishes the scandal,
going to meet him in Portugal.
“It’s a waste of time trying to change a man’s character. You have to accept him as he is, ”Her Majesty told a friend. However, she did not always react so understandingly to her husband, it is clear from the book.
During their royal tour of Australia in 1954, a film crew making a film about them witnessed a rather stormy scandal. Journalists are surprised to hear that someone is starting to fight a lot in the hut where Elizabeth II and her husband are. Then they see Philip climbing quickly into the garden, followed by a pair of sports shoes and a tennis racket. A very angry queen is heard shouting at him to return immediately.
Director Loch Townsend recalls that Royal Press Secretary Richard Colville asked the cameramen to stop filming immediately, take their films out of the cameras and hand them over to him. Later, the queen herself came out and thanked them for their help, saying that she apologized for this small incident, which, according to her, happens in every marriage.
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