Young Prince Philip : his turbulent early life by Eade, Philip instant download

Young Prince Philip : his turbulent early life by Eade, Philip instant download

xx, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm, Married for more than sixty years to the most famous woman in the world, Prince Philip is the longest-serving royal consort in British history. Yet while he is still one of the most recognisable figures in public life, his origins remain curiously shrouded in obscurity. In Young Prince Philip, the first book to focus exclusively on his life before the coronation, biographer Philip Eade recounts the Prince's extraordinary upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany and Britain, where he inhabited a notably colourful milieu yet was beset by continual turbulence and a succession of family tragedies, Geneal. table on endpapers, Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index, Kings of Greece -- House of Battenberg -- Boy's own story -- Family in flight -- Orphan child -- Prep school days -- Dodging the Hitler youth -- Off to Gordonstoun -- Blow after blow -- The man with the plan -- A good war -- Osla and Lilibet -- Steady on, Dickie -- Nothing ventured -- True Brit -- Royal wedding -- Duke of hazards -- Their happiest time -- Second fiddle -- Oh, the future! -- Her liege man