Prince Philip 1921–2021
By
Professor Kate Williams, CNN royal historian
When Elizabeth of York first encountered Prince Philip, she was not intended to be queen. She was seven years old and bridesmaid to her aunt, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, as she married the Duke of Kent at Westminster Abbey, while 12-year-old Philip was attending as the bride’s first cousin. The children barely spoke but the foreign newspapers had already listed Prince Philip as a suitably royal husband for the little Princess, as her third cousin through Queen Victoria.
When they met again, five years later, in 1939, everything had changed. Elizabeth’s uncle, Edward VIII, had abdicated three years earlier. Her father was now King and she was the heir to the throne. Philip was an 18-year-old naval cadet. And Europe was on the brink of cataclysmic conflict and change as World War II was about to begin.
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Bashiera Parker (@bparks ) Share The royal family at Windsor, (from left) Prince Edward, Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Anne, Prince Charles and Prince Andrew.
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Royal Family was banned by the queen after it first aired in 1969, but has since found its way onto YouTube before disappearing yet again last week.
The documentary takes a candid look at the queen, Prince Philip and their children as they go about their day-to-day lives.
Royal experts have speculated over the years that the banning of the documentary had much to do with Her Majesty referring to a politician as a gorilla .
Why the Queen didnât want anyone to see banned Royal Family documentary
Back in the late 1960s, the Royal Family allowed access for the BBC into Buckingham Palace so they could film a one-off documentary about what life is really like as a royal
The BBC documentary was banned by the Queen in 1972 (Image: BBC/Crown)
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The Duke of Edinburgh once enlisted the BBC to make a ground-breaking documentary entitled ‘The Royal Family’. The fly-on-the-wall broadcast followed a year in the lives of the Royal Family, allowing the public inside Palace gates to see how they lived their everyday lives. It showed the Queen and the other royals hard at work, but also what they did in their leisure time.
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